Thanks for indulging me @tycho. You have two facets it appears, writing-wise that is, you can be very clear when you want to, also very obtuse, as the straight post above proves. I get what you are putting across, I have objections here and there.
Never said I didnt trust you. I also never said I trusted you. I said I thought you were having a laugh, significant difference, like a satirist you might say. That is to be skeptical.
To say I trust or don't trust you is heavy handed and presumptous on your part. The adjective 'trust' or 'distrust' is too heavy for the near-anonymous interactions we carry out on the web. You cannot take such a liberty with someone you do not know personally. To proceed from this point on to calling me insecure is egregious. ...why, because I took a shot at your poetry? Does anyone who criticises your writing or indeed you become insecure? Have you noticed I generally leave your normal political commentary (the non poetic ones) alone? You were doing fine until you set upon this blurry trust/insecurity path.
Quote:All humans that have distrust are
insecure
So @tycho, are you free from all distrust, or any kind of distrust? Because no normal human is completely free from some form of distrust, no matter how small. To claim otherwise is to imply perfection on your part. Or may I ask how much mistrust is considered enough to cross the threshold into the insecure? Who decides this threshold? You? You judged me, its a fair question.
How about security agents, like NSIS, they tend to distrust a lot of things and a lot of people, are they insecure too? If you are not claiming perfection, wouldn't that put you in that huge bin of distrustful, insecure people you mentioned up there? So I am baffled, what or who gives you the right to say I am insecure?
Sweeping statements like these are careless; for instance #7 here.
Quote:7. The middle class trusts neither the
higher nor the lower classes.
Those who are insecure must
have inferiority complex.
Therefore the middle class has
inferiority complex.
..you are pointing at an entire class of people and
passing judgment on them. when people pass judgment on others, they are saying they are not encumbered with the same short comings as those they judge. You took one brush, dipped it in a mud called insecurity and inferiority complex and blanketly painted the middle class. No variance or deviation can exist, right? you have perfect knowledge. Wow, talk of impertinence.
Even claiming this was made as social commentary cant save it from the eddies of arrogance which are steering it towards the rocks; It is acceptable to point out and mock human folly, but it is another thing to consign people as beleaguered by it cause they belong to a certain economic station. So, only the middle class is saddled with this distrust problem right? The higher class trust their own, trust the middle and the lower as well, and the lower do the same for the middle and higher classes? Much love from up and below then, with only the middle being the suspicious and pouty black sheep, that is what you would have us believe? The higher classes cannot be insecure? How about the lower classes? All of the higher classes or just some? As a matter of fact, who are these people who cannot and are not insecure and how did they get that way?
Can insecurity be attributed to fear, or actually be a form of it? Cause earlier you made these mind bending statements
Quote:
'Fear itself' is the essence of being. It is the bedrock, the prime mover unmoved.
then this. .
Quote:Fear, is the force of uncertainty; and uncertainty can never be done away with, therefore fear cannot be moved.
Therefore fear is the prime mover unmoved.
Do these two statements portend good or bad things? Also, are you exempt from them? I am freshly confused. ..
My parting words, temper your generalizations, or avoid them altogether; Averages or prevalent behaviour may tend towards the majority, but they are not absolutes, not 100%.