Astute & deeply true
Blind rage is open fire that never knows the bigger problem, thereby, the target is always missed, while the rampant shots of outrage hit & harm us all
Or as W.B. Years said it:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity....
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Just after WW1 and prior to WW2. A few good decades for fascists.
Intelligent people have lost their urge to conquer but still have urge to defend. In other words, the intelligent people are not fully intelligent yet.
"Normal people" doubt, other people believe anything the speaker says, this comes directly from millennia of religious tradition. It's hard to get rid of.
I am reading "TheComing of the Third Reich" trilogy book 1. It describes how the Nazis came into power. I feel I am living a potential history repeat. The names and groups may be different. It is chilling.
Read "The Second Coming" by Yeats, easily googled. It says the same thing. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity".
The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of fear, & the stupid ones are full of rage. There are confident intelligent people & stupid ones who are full of doubts.
W.B. Yeats' poem The Second Coming" has been haunting my brain with its similar sentiments:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
I now see I am far from the first to cite that poem in this thread. But it's true - this poem has been on my mind. The rough beast of fascism has been stalking nation after nation in recent years, and now it's coming to take up residence in the White House again, with bigger face-eating teeth.
I still think doubt is a good thing though. People with no self awareness go through life never second guessing anything they say or do. People are good BECAUSE they wonder if they’ve done the right thing. Doubt makes us take inventory. That has value.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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Are full of passionate intensity.
- W. B. Yeats
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt."
https://russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM
Blind rage is open fire that never knows the bigger problem, thereby, the target is always missed, while the rampant shots of outrage hit & harm us all
As my wife says....
it's a good thing I think I'm funny.
Are full of passionate intensity
W B Years
Apologies
Apologies.
are full of passionate intensity." W.B..Yeats
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity....
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Just after WW1 and prior to WW2. A few good decades for fascists.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Zionism = Genocide
Are full of passionate intensity.
(I even love typography, but this is natural/artificial dumb if it’s just algo-please, no?)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
What does that mean about the validity of the quotes?
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity …”
Hmm - In light of DJT naming Kari Lake as head of Voice of America, this quote seems especially apropos tonight.
Full of confidence
And loud and obnoxious as hell.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- Years
That's about where we are.