Michel: Expect more acid attacks, its almost a given

Yes, I am having a problem with time. I am trying to take more time to answer so as not to be fatigued.

In matters of human behaviour, I believe, we must remember the bell curve. Our behaviour takes the shape of the bell-shaped curve with extremes of thought, behaviour at the two tails. I would put some of the people on this blog at one of the extremes. But some events tend to pull the tail inwards or outwards. Such an event was 9/11. The bell shape got a bit distorted. Now we see more people at one extreme, the extreme where the hawks live. The job is to bring it back to the proper bell shape. The hawks will be there and must be there for the balance they provide.

This blog sometimes makes it seem as though the bell shape is grossly distorted in one direction, but I am sure in your day to day interaction with the American people you would have had a different experience. I do not know, but I am willing to bet that your experience of Americans is very different from waht you have experienced on this blog.

As you have yourself said in this post: The US is neither a society of Hare Krishnas, nor is it of fanatics, It is mainly a civ with an unheard drive towards bettering circumstances of any kind. It is a sharing, curiouos, innovative, kind, giving, warm, totally heterogenuous people, where the strong assists the weak and family ties to pretty much all other cutlures lead to awareness of such disparity and ethicall driven motivation to improve their conditions.

What you see on this blog is a lot of people the exact opposite of what I have underlined. The idea in engaging in long dialogues with them is not because of any expectation that they will change but because of the fact that there are hundreds who visit this blog every day. It is not in any way to honour the ideas they espouse but to show the reader that those opinions are not unchallenged, that their reasoning is not entirely without flaw that the end they seek is very likely unreachable with the means they want adopted.

Yes, if you let it some of the stuff they throw at you can erode your confidence, which is the end they seek. If you have faith in what you stand for all the acid that comes your way will not corrode it. Michel you have often been a balm for some of the acid that has come my way. I hope you stick with it.

Plato