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Originally Posted by JU_88
I gotta admit Sky, I have no idea what your current politcal stance (in general) is really.
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Give up binary thinking and then you can see.
As I explained some weeks earlier, the "winner-takes-it-all" mentality forms a craving for competition as a way of living that becomes itself somewhat revolving around competing for the mere purpose and the mere meaning of life, leading to fighting against somebody else for the purpose of taking it all and taking everythingaway fom the other. The act of fighting becomes the focus of it all, not the thing that is being fought
for. And this now has led the US society to a situation where it all goes beyond proportion and us foreigners ask ourselves whether the Americans really ever intend to stand united again, and if they ever intend to think again of this old motto "E pluribus unum". The poltical rifts are as wide as the San Andreas trench now, and they continue ion civil society, even inside families apparently.
If one is too deeply dug in in this extremism and polarization haunting the US now, then yes, I can imagine that then it is diffiult to understand where I politically stand. Because I reject both to chose between just 0 and 1. In other words, maybe I am too subtle, multi-layered.
Give up binary thinking. Consider me a libertarian, an undogmatic Buddhist and pragmatic Taoist, a traditional European humanist and an economic and fiscal Austrian. Add a bit of Klingon directness and aggressiveness, and a honorable mentioning of my love for squirrels, pizza and being lazy. All that together covers much of what "I" stand for in thinking: on politics, and other things. I believe in a lack of laziness leading to burnout, and that people with too many ambitions set the world ablaze, before burning out themselves, too.