I wouldn't myself equate tender humanitarian empathy for the recognition that when human beings are subjected to hideous cruelty as children they can become hideously cruel themselves as a mechanical cause-effect. The empathy isn't for the person who has become a monster but for the inevitability that this is why monsters exist. You lament the fact that there can be no good without evil, that the love of one creates the hate of the other. To see the world as it it is, in my opinion, is to let go of good and evil and to let go of them you have to let go of the notion of justification of blame. There is only love and the heartbreak that love brings.I strongly believe, in this case, that the thrust of your deep empathy is misplaced. Unless you will now post the same tender humanitarian empathy for Adolf Eichmann and Josef Megele, that is. Ball's in your court.
SHS deserves all the mental anguish coming her way as far as I'm concerned. She chose to work for a mentally ill sociopath and Putin appeaser. Boo fucking hoo. Que the quantum violin.
You missed the important larger point. I don't have sympathy for her actions. I not approve of her. I find her to be aiding a terrible person, Trump. She has earned her scorn.
Again that's not the point, rather that people like her are made, and that is what's tragic.
I'm really surprised that Trump hasn't attacked her over her looks, weight, sleepy eye yet. We will know she is on her way out when he starts.Maybe Sanders is learning the golden rule: Trump always screws over everyone. It's just a question of how long you hold out before it happens.
What if I told you "I have a job for you. It pays $240,000 a year, and all you have to do, is talk to newspaper people twice a day. That's it. And not only that, I'm going to hire a bunch of assistants to do the job for you so sometimes you won't even have to go out there.
There's one catch though, you have to explain why Hitler was right, whether you believe he was or not."
Would you take the job?
She's just a PR person. Lying is the literal job description / requirement. It's the entire purpose of their profession.
Where do I sign up?What if I told you "I have a job for you. It pays $240,000 a year, and all you have to do, is talk to newspaper people twice a day. That's it. And not only that, I'm going to hire a bunch of assistants to do the job for you so sometimes you won't even have to go out there.
There's one catch though, you have to explain why Hitler was right, whether you believe he was or not."
Would you take the job?
You will have noted that I have no kind words for her and have said she is accountable for her actions. She deserves all we say and maybe more, but there are aspects of the human condition, things that lie below the visible, the "pasteboard mask" of Ahab and like him it is the thing behind it I chiefly hate. Again I have no tears for her either, but I cannot help at times to wonder at our species that creates people who deserve no quarter. That's how my "eyesight" works, that there is a depth to reality that I must confront.
What if I told you "I have a job for you. It pays $240,000 a year, and all you have to do, is talk to newspaper people twice a day. That's it. And not only that, I'm going to hire a bunch of assistants to do the job for you so sometimes you won't even have to go out there.
There's one catch though, you have to explain why Hitler was right, whether you believe he was or not."
Would you take the job?
Where do I sign up?
