Manifesto

…..he is readily able to separate the man from his core beliefs; I am not.  He trolls glibly along the ripple-free surface without ever plumbing the depths of the man’s character.  He either doesn’t care what lies deep beneath the surface or he is terrified of what he might find if he belatedly scoured those unseen depths.  Ignorance is bliss.  Denseness is Shangri-La.  Knowing nothing is better than knowing something.  Maybe that makes him a better person than myself; I just don’t know for sure.  All I will swear to for certain is that in my mind a person IS the sum of their strongly held beliefs.  An individual is equal to the convictions they hold onto the tightest—no more and no less.  I submit that It is impossible to cull a person apart from their belief architecture and pretend that they are naturally good and jolly and altruistic when the opinions that same person publicly espouses to like-minded reprobates and during radioactive Facebook rants represent a stark antithesis to the aforementioned redeeming qualities.  Call me over-reactionary, or call me right.  But just for the official record, I don’t really give a shit about your uninformed opinion anyway and will continue believing as I do.  That is called being principled, although some people mistakenly call it being stubborn…..