From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 22:13:56 MST
John Clark writes
> 3) It's counterintuitive but for some strange reason the war
> supporters seem like nicer people that the anti-war crowd
I'd like to know on what you base your impressions. This list?
Media depictions? Apparent personalities of the protest marchers?
Hubert writes in to agree:
> No, it is not counterintuitive at all. People who support war do the right
> thing to their ancient brain rudiments which call for unconditional defense
> of your own territory. If you do so, the appropriate neuropeptides are
> released and all you fine young cannibals feel pretty relaxed because you
> have done the right thing. That's why you appear to be the nicer people.
Whatever the value of Hubert's physiological theories---and I don't think that
he put them forth seriously, it's weird that he agrees with the observation.
I'm skeptical. That's because for many decades I've been on the
lookout for any and all signs of correlation between ideology
and sociability or cooperativeness. And I've seen nothing
really noteworthy.
Now the far left is vastly better organized than the far right.
It's a commonplace observation as to which groups coordinated
the peace marchers. Their conservative opposites simply do not
*have* comparable organizations. (It's all a legacy of the
20th century fight for socialism around the world.)
Therefore, more leftist assholes get before the cameras, and
their shrill diatribes penetrate much further and get more
exposure than do their equally misanthropic opposite numbers
on the other extreme. Is that what's being talked about here?
Lee
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