People of a Different Mentality

I have spent a lot of time downloading close to a terabyte of mp3 new age music via the internet's Usenet. I observe what others post, and interpret the “general rules for posting,” uploading, for when I plan on “sharing” my collection. I have found, during this time, that there are artists and titles I have in my collection that were not posted, and feel confident that I will not post duplicates.

Since I am sensitive to the political side of people, and their relationships accordingly, I still find myself stumbling, face first, into being irritated by some, who either think or feel, they are human-kind’s savior to perfection (see Christianity, Cain, and Government). Mind you, I couldn’t care less if they preach all they want into how others have terrible characters, and need fixing. I draw the line when they actually use any kind of power to accomplish their goal.

This brings me to the title of this installment. There are two kinds of people, those that view others as goofs and need to be perfected, and those that don’t care if they are not perfect and want to be left alone. I am in the second group of people. I’ll go even further to state that I will go out of my way to let others be who they think they are. I cannot fathom the desire of the other kind to actually busy themselves into planning governmental policies to carry out their goal to perfect society into their sense of divine social behavior.

They may not know it, but some actually do, believe they actually sit in God’s chair and order human behavior according to how they understand how others are to behave. They will deny it, but they view themselves as being perfect. To them it is others that need fixing. You may even say to yourself, at this point, I am being like them wanting to fix them. Not entirely true, although I do understand where that thought comes from. What is different is that all I want is to be left alone in my imperfection. What I want fixing is the apparatus, the kind of government our found fathers built, which they have contaminated, to infect me, and the like, with their brand of perfection.

When discussing this idea with those of that other kind they become offended to the suggestion that those alike, and I, want to be left alone in our imperfection. I have been told that I must think I am better than they because of their rhetoric in response communicates that “we” are in this together, and that this is a democracy, and not individual human islands. Of course they haven’t the foggiest idea that this country isn’t a democracy, but instead a republic. Hence, there are arenas, or areas, of this free society that are off limits, and they are numerated in the U.S. Constitution.