- Dołączono
- 3 Lut 2013
In response to the whole bleach debacle, I find that once again, CS Lewis is very instructive in this regard.
The big problem I've seen with those afflicted with TDS is right here: they refuse to look beyond headlines or engage in critical thinking because they prefer their perceived enemies to be as evil as possible. I suspect that it gives them a sense of superiority, a feeling that because their opponents are bad, they are good. It's moral laziness at it's best. There's no need to work in charity, or actively help make the world a better place. I'm not a monster like Trump and his supporters. And their world grows blacker and blacker.
What worries me is that even after Trump is gone, the worldview that these people are developing now won't be. Ingrained by habit, their tendency to see the absolute worse in everyone and everything will probably stick around long after anything from the Trump campaign. Unless there's some sort of realignment, I can see Trump Derangement Syndrome literally evolving into good old fashioned derangement.
Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.
The big problem I've seen with those afflicted with TDS is right here: they refuse to look beyond headlines or engage in critical thinking because they prefer their perceived enemies to be as evil as possible. I suspect that it gives them a sense of superiority, a feeling that because their opponents are bad, they are good. It's moral laziness at it's best. There's no need to work in charity, or actively help make the world a better place. I'm not a monster like Trump and his supporters. And their world grows blacker and blacker.
What worries me is that even after Trump is gone, the worldview that these people are developing now won't be. Ingrained by habit, their tendency to see the absolute worse in everyone and everything will probably stick around long after anything from the Trump campaign. Unless there's some sort of realignment, I can see Trump Derangement Syndrome literally evolving into good old fashioned derangement.