UNSENT MESSAGE - Right Wing Neural Pathways

I don't recall exactly what this guy (named Bob) said that pissed me off so much, but it was undoubtedly something incredibly ignorant, narrow minded, and bursting with either bigotry or proven fallacy parading as fact. As if there is any difference between the two. Like many of my UNSENT posts will be,  this was ultimately left Unfinished as well. Or at least, unposted, because I had to go to a work meeting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bob. Hi. I was drawn to actually sign up for an account here to throw my soon-to-be insulted, ignored, and scoffed at reply into the ocean of them you are swimming in. But its not arguments like mine or other reasonable people who have talked to you as well that is causing your drowning. On the contrary, its the pitifully overused, cliched, disproven and/or misleading talking points that were so carefully included in all the conservative publications and broadcasts that you read and receive, that you don't even realize you are reciting them. You feel that based on your own "facts" and in conjunction with your own acceptable command of the language, all credit for statements and concepts in your post are the result of your own thinking and conceptualization, and you likely take offense, or dismiss outright anybody who points out how overused your very arguments are. You dismiss them, because you "know" they are full of crap, because your words and thoughts are "your own" and based on common sense and information you've processed. Am I basically correct so far? Hopefully, we can at least agree up to this point. 

 What you are likely too long gone to understand, however, is something both Fox News, and particularly the think tanks like *all Koch funded organizations, save for maybe Cato* are well aware of. Its also something that leaders in charge at the local chapter of your Deity-Of-Choice's own Same-Day Sin Cleansing, Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser & Pay-To-Pray Holy Roller Blessing Rental Institution (aka your Church) is EXTREMELY WELL AWARE OF. In Fact, they were aware of the Ends, without ever understanding the Means, long before the Means were scientifcally explained and proven in recent years: Repetition of Confidently and/or Forcefully Expressed Concepts actual create neural pathways in your noggin, that make it harder and harder to hear anything or seriously entertain any concept that contradicts your little neural circuitry feedback loop, is instead explained away dismissively, or unseriously, rather then deal with the consequences that come with a possible loss of that little neural feedback crutch all together. 

Do you ever wonder how the entirety of collective liberal thought, in all of our unruly, untrained, and often uncouth and unorthodox existence can so confidently and smugly operate at odds with the well oiled republican machinery? Do you ever wonder how on Earth liberals could be so foolish because you simply CANNOT understand our way of thinking? Guess what-- Most of us liberals, real liberals not Reagan Democratic types -- Don't wonder the same thing about conservatives at all. We might express exasperation, but what you generally don't get is a completely "Get Off My Lawn" response from us treating you like we're the self appointed "grownup authority and party of faith in God and can therefore talk down to all we oppose", and not the other way around. We don't wonder how you can think this way, because many of us thought the same way you did once. Naturally, and in its more primitive operating mode, the human brain is chiefly concerned with self, and believes any good fortune they have seen, is because of their hard work and fully deserved. Did you go to college? Get a job? Get married? Buy a house? Have a kid? Great. You should be proud. The difference between you and I, is that I did those things too, but I consider myself incredibly fortunate because I am entirely aware that plenty of other people are more deserving and harder working, yet have less. I do not alternately glorify my own religious mores by attempting to enshrine them into law for all to obey, all the while behaving in a way that only glorifies the almighty dollar---though, having been raised a staunch and true believer in the protestant tradition, before I wised up, I entirely understand the allure of the alleged surrender of my soul and admittance of all the horrible things I did to get my slate wiped clean each evening. 

Starting each new day with a clear conscience that God himself has given you justification to have is a VERY good way to be a very bad person, and truly believe you are living a Godly life. If you really believe all that junk, then, your repentance is absolutely sincere. But it also becomes for you, the trigger which subconsciously disengages the software package known as your conscience, which is MEANT to prevent our unethical behavior, because if God and you have a comfortable and sincere arrangement, who is your mere mortal conscience to step in and cockblock a good thing? Basically, you and the part of your brain that you subconsciously designate to stand in as the neutral party who decides whether or not God is ok with what you're doing turns into a stand-in FOR GOD and ultimately, you can be completely truthful about how important your faith in Jesus is, and absoltuely sincere in your belief. The problem is, that you are so sincere and its so important to you, because without it, you have no hard-wired mechanism to condone whatever unethical, cheating, philandering, thieving ways you've developed a penchant for. And while your Godly side doesn't dare scrutinize this arrangement to hard, that lack of scrutiny is itself the arrangement that allows hyopcrisy to reign so supreme nowhere more then where the faithful gather. or, more accurately, my ardently humanitarian and compassion-based morality)