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If anyone is to take a few moments and read a few pages of Netflix reviews, or YouTube comments, or even forum posts regarding controversial subjects, one will quickly encounter a principal problem with the human race.
As I write this short essay, I am painfully aware of how much I belong in the group of those who think their own opinions or thoughts are worthy of sharing with the world. In that capacity, I am no less guilty than anyone else who gives their opinions in public. In earlier days, I used to ponder about something that I'm a bit ashamed of now. I used to ponder what pleasure God could possibly derive from idiots. As you can well surmise, that statement alone automatically places me in a precarious position, simply because anyone's true idiot status is not for a single human being to decide. Even still, I did ponder. In daily life, there are so many encounters with the inconsiderate, the rude, the thoughtless, the selfish, the aggressive, the histrionic, the melodramatic, the angry, the sarcastic, the nihilistic, the pessimistic, the deranged... the list is exhaustive and exhausting. At any given time, to be blatantly honest, any one of us could commit some single act that would fall under any one of the descriptions in the previous paragraph. So perhaps that's why we're not supposed to judge others; if we actually believe we're free of objectionable behavior, then we're also free from honesty regarding our perceptions of ourselves. I no longer question such a thing as what possible pleasure God could derive from idiots. I realize it's a fool's train of thought, as I'm sure I've played the idiot on more than one occasion in my life. These days, I tend to ponder things like this: How can anyone look at the entire world's behavioral track record, including his or her own behavior, and persist in deriding the concept of original sin? That's the ugly side of subjectivity: our cognitive dissonance keeps us blind to whatever the truth might actually be. |