Wes Mantooth

I've always wondered this too. In the end I've come to the conclusion that its really easy to talk about having extreme views but acting upon them is just too difficult for most people. In most cases your going to need to have an infrastructure to support you, an economic structure, a place to worship or congregate, a governing body ect. In most cases an extreme viewpoint often puts you in the minority and their simply aren't enough people or resources around you to make it work. When you considered the time it takes eeking out a living and raising a family more often then not those views wind up being discarded or severely diminished. In other words most extreme views are just a pipe dream and nothing more.

I'm also convinced that some people put forth these extreme view points to simply sound cool, different or deep while never having any intention of following through on them. For example I knew many many people in college that were very hard line in their outside or extremist views. They lived the life (as much as one can on their parents money while living in a dorm room), talked down to others, lectured, protested and then graduated. Its amazing how many of them became businessmen who own nice homes, cars and just about every modem amenity that money can buy. Really sometimes its just a phase.

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