You don't think your really on the team, do you?

[galileoreloaded]

You don't think your really on the team, do you?
Posted by Kes at 5:00 pm, December 30th 2009.

http://www.americanmugabe.com/am%20blog.html

I've recently been browsing my favorite assortment of websites, and have noticed the level of animosity between both ideologies in regards to their separate factions. It is almost broken out into an all out conflict, with true believers on both sides (Left/Right) attempting to rein in the voice of dissent, as well as marginalize the dissenters opinions with the hope of disrupting any organization outside of the mainstream. Generally, the ideological true believers take the position of cheerleaders to the cause, for lack of better term, to their particular establishment. The dissenters on the other hand, seem to be focused on each and every item where the person or party in question has not fulfilled their obligations within some ideological boundaries. These boundaries are very subjective and rely heavily on whom is the person drawing those boundaries, but regardless, the conflict does exist on both sides of the political ocean.

When things aren't that great, we fight and scratch and paint them wonderful and dehumanize the dissenters. I am beginning to believe it is human nature. I came across the following article on a peak oil blog, and thought it was very witty and wanted to share it with you. There is a great chance that the term outlined below has the ability to truly implant itself in the lexicon of modern American life.

Do You Have a Panglossian Disorder? or Economic and Planetary Collapse: Is it a Therapeutic Issue?

http://www.peakoilblues.com/blog/?p=132

Panglossian Disorder: “The neurotic tendency toward extreme optimism in the face of likely cultural and planetary collapse.”

Panglossian Disorders and Their Subtypes

Temporal Subtypes:
Scarlet O’Hara-ism- “I’ll just have to think about that tomorrow.” A strategy of denial that allows the person to temporally compartmentalize the feared event(s).
Futurism: “Sure, that will happen, but it will occur after all of us are long dead.” A belief that something that might happen in the distant future is no concern in the present.
Y2K features: “They said everything would collapse with 2000, and it didn’t.” A belief that any prior concern about societal problems that didn’t occur demonstrates the impossibility of any others happening in the future.



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[PDJane]

1. I don't have much optimism........

not sure why not, but I suspect it has to do with knowing what's going on and chronic clinical depression.

[snagglepuss]

2. Briefly scanned . Very interesting. Bookmarked for reading. Thanks for posting.

Great title: Do You Have a Panglossian Disorder? or Economic and Planetary Collapse: Is it a Therapeutic Issue?

[laughingliberal]

3. Excellent. Thanks for posting. nt

[Extend a Hand]

4. what a good article

I hadn't read it. Thanks for posting it.

[bertman]

5. Interesting post.

Since you do not receive private messages, galileoreloaded, I'll put it here in the post. "You're"= "you are". "Your"= possessive case showing ownership.

Sorry but that and they're/their/there mixups are one of my pet peeves.

[galileoreloaded]

6. Turned on PM @ request.

Sorry, my dictation software gets a little screwed up sometimes, and I try like hell to catch it, but........

[bertman]

7. No problem. But, you should know that I am with the Grammar Police and you're now on

my list. You may consider this a warning ticket to get your dictation software fixed.

B-)