My lawyer told me that. He said the hardest thing he had to learn was to never look for rationality where there is none. I understand intellectually, but so far I’ve been unable to emotionally disconnect myself from the global irrationality I see. It fills me with horror and rage. I’m apolitical. Although I always…
Lynch mobs, dancing on graves, and making political hay
November 28, 2015
When I was a child, I saw one of the most horrifying films ever made: The Ox-Bow Incident. It’s about the psychology of lynch mobs. Yesterday Robert Lewis Dear Jr carried out a six-hour siege at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He killed two civilians and University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police officer…