And so, prejudice and superstition

 

In an unusual approach I will just start out with the conclusion here, and see

if that make sense later on.  My conclusion is that organizations , movements,

conversations, or other activities that are too heavily invested in either superstition

or prejudice are not going to get very far, or at least not very far, for very long.

I will not try to distinguish between them, because they are so intimately related.


The reason for this assertion is that both perspectives really represent a kind of

poor aim,  like sights that are just maladjusted on some kind of device.  Therefore,

the journey or flight based on this will be slightly off, and the desired end will not

be properly reached as expected.


Originally, this was going to be be about fascism and Nazism, because of the

current events during which republicans in the U.S. began calling democrats

fascist and visa versa.  Of course, really, I don't know that much about either

fascism or Nazism, but from my perspective what Nazism was mostly about

was the enthusiastic assertion that everyone in the world should speak German,

which was probably more enthusiastically rejected by the French, Americans, 

English, and Russians.  Fascism , in the same way , would be the notion 

that Italy should be the center of everything, based probably on poor historic

notions.  In the end, both of these movements were supported by considerable

amounts of both prejudice and superstition , resulting in that they both, kind of,

burned out pretty quickly.   


Nevertheless, superstitions and prejudices of various kinds do still infect

our social and personal lives in various ways.  Sometimes these

elements create greater or lesser degrees of confusion, but they are

generally undesirable, while at the same time being sometimes

hard to detect or isolate.  Certainly, at the level of conversations, it

is always wise to make efforts to either reduce or eliminate these

elements, to the degree that is possible.

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