Sometimes I need to quote myself

[hummingwolf]

because it's just too relevant to conversations going on this week:

So it seems to be a natural feature of the hnau of this planet to try to place everyone into a little box as we decide who is like us, who is unlike us. And the ones who are unlike us and who we happen not to like must be wholly unlike us, incomprehensible to us and uncomprehending of us. This saves us time. If we already know that we will never understand nor be understood, then all the hard work of communicating may safely be skipped over and we can go straight to the vilification and the fighting.

Comments

[seejaye.livejournal.com]

I'm leaving a comment 'cause I was perusing my own user interest page and noticed that my interest entitled "open-minded skepticism" was no longer an isolated, freakish, lonely designation but was now an underlined, official "shared interest" - huzzAHH! (It's the little things that make me happy.) And yours was the one that did it - still only two of us, though. Great to see a kindred spirit!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Little things make me happy too. Hi there!

(There are actually a couple of people out there who list "open minded skepticism" as an interest, but the hyphenated version really is so much better.)