November 03, 2006
The Cross on the Sewer
When will the psychological concept of projection become as well understood as the Freudian slip? If that ever comes to pass, smart people will stop attributing their most shameful internal impulses to others, especially in public, lest they expose their personal demons for all to analyze.
Let's stop attributing evil to others and take a hard look inside ourselves for the very things we would like to eradicate.
The recent case of The Reverend Ted Haggard is a perfect example. Richard Dawkins interviewed The Reverend for his BBC series "The Roots of All Evil" -- in the end of the clip, Reverend Ted asks Dawkins to leave the premises for calling his parishioners animals. Really?. That is not to say that evangelicals don't know how to have a littlefun.
Actually, Mike Jones, The Reverend's paramour, is quite impressive. In disclosing the hypocrisy of an evangelical Presidential advisor, he took the moral high ground. It couldn't have been easy, given the negative publicity that he's received. He was not encouraged to do this by any political group. He says that he wanted to support equal rights for gays in Colorado. Hopefully you can get the movie to play.
In the spirit of looking at our own projections, all of us here at Dakota admit to having vicious impulses toward George W. From now on we shall try to emulate Mahatma Gandhi
Photo note: The cross on the sewer -- a metaphorophoto
Posted by Dakota at November 3, 2006 01:07 PM