cyrnel

How does hate help? What does it offer? I mean what does it offer to us as individuals, not to those at the mic/pulpit for whom it's a tool.

For me hate clouds perception, distracts from any honest analysis. At best it's the cart before the horse. It solves nothing for me. It's so often used by leaders to keep their flock in tow that I don't trust it. It means issues, baggage. Dump it. At least, that's what I try to do.

Rekna, I meant having emotions is rational. The emotions themselves are not. Is that closer? I'm happy to give into my humanity when the effects are positive, but hate is nothing but an evil we inflict on ourselves.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195