I am sorry for the loss of an innocent woman. I am not very good at offering condolences nor do I expect people to share my own pain. There is one real suffering here, it is the pain borne by the family and close friends. Everyone else should at least try to be respectful. There is no way we can truly share their pain. We can not make up for the grief that will probably last a life time by uttering a few smart words.
There is a certain group of people who call themselves social democrats, socialist or the like. There is no doubt these people are fond of reading, writing and talking. The problem is they read books that put them in a perpetual vicious circle. The more they read the more isolated their brains become. This cycle turns them into individuals unable to feel, think or desire anything that conflicts with the train of thought they are fed.
Their philosophers have provided them with an oversimplified understanding of life and the world. The friends and foes are strictly classified. Canned statements about select political arguments are also provided. So, whoever talks about a certain matter he says exactly the same thing about it. This is more like a primary school setting; if you follow some basic rules you stay out of harm´s way.
This mechanism makes you virtually bullet proof. Most often criticized aspects of the ideology are protected by sacred verses written by Marx or Engels. The more you know about them the more sophisticated you appear. No body questions whether there is life beyond the ideology. Thanks to the colored books they read, the world is so simple, people are so straigthforward and nothing can go wrong in it. Voila!
Edited (6/15/2010) by vineyards
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