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DetlefK

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5. A deeply ingrained mindset of "I am special and you are not".
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 05:08 AM
Jul 2014

You can find it in religion.

You can find it in racism.

You can find it in movies: The viewer becomes immersed into the main-character, the only person in the world that counts. The only person whose actions matter. Books can tell a story from many points of view. A movie can tell a story only from one point of view. And I think that attitude has permeated society.

You can find it in misogyny: Too many men have the attitude that they decide, that only they matter. They do something and as a consequence they are entitled to the girl. Otherwise she's a prude slut.

You can find it in self-victimization: I am special because I defend mankind against the forces of darkness. I picket abortion-clinics, I discriminate, I take care that criminals have access to guns. I do everything I consider just and right and that makes me normal in my world and special in a world consumed by sin and liberals. You don't like that I inflict harm on "bad" people? That's why I am the true victim here.

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