Originally posted by: judasmachine
I know, I'm just lamenting it coming from a pretty intelligent person. He reads all the books, and articles, and keeps up on the news. The most frustrating thing is that he even turns off the TV when the news networks start talking about Brittney, or whoever their spoiled brat of the week happens to be. And yet he falls for it.
Huge numbers of people are emotionally children. The intellect, via rationalization, is the servant of irrational and even unconscious feelings, justifying them to the more mature self so we don't see what fools we are.