Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Acknowledgement: Something not everyone does.
Something really funny that happens everyone once in a while. Most of the time it ends with the person repeating themselves over and over ingorning what I said or them becoming very quiet.

As you know, I am partially a racists (I tend to have multiple genres for each race), and hold many contradicting beliefs to your standard "utopian".

When I say "utopian" I am talking about people who share a rather naieve view on how to fix society. Those are those people who suffer from extreme heinsight biased in situations, can hold an irrational emotional attachment to one thing, while completely dis-regarding another that is related to it. The most common dogma that these people have is "you should accept everyone for who they are and not press your beliefs on them".

Then we go on to acknowledgement. Many people have two worlds with them: what they say, and what they actually do.

Personally, I can confirm that a very large amount of racists have no idea that they are one. Most of them hold the utopian view about races. This was me before I was able to acknowledge my actions.

What is funny is that people have a very bad habit of argueing the "you should accept everyone for who they are and not press your beliefs on them" on me.

Why is it funny? Because they aren't accepting who I am, nor the beliefs that I have. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the thing is that it is completely hypocritical with what they are argueing me to do.

And oh MAN do a lot of people do this. And when I point it out, the two outcomes of I listed first occurs.

The people who do this are blatent examples of the inability to acknowledge their actions. A part of Fahrenheight 451 (I can't spell) in the beginning when the girl asks Montag if he is happy, the first thing he does is say yes, like a machine response. Not much later in the book, he acknowledges that he in fact isn't happy.

I wish I still had my sister's book on psychology with me, because otherwise I would look up why we do that. But until then, I end this shorter than usual post.

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