Reply #76: You add nothing to the discussion, but, then again, you rarely do.

[Mythsaje]

I wonder what it would take for you to begin to question, or if you'd continue sounding the fanfare trumpets until everything crumbled to dust. In truth, I hope you're right. But I greatly fear you're wrong. If it soothes you to believe that this is about me, do so. But so far all of this has injured me very little, though it has caused others great harm. But what does it say about you that you cannot see an involvement in these things unmotivated by self interest?

It is fine by you if criminals walk free, spreading their poison, with no one to call them to task. It is fine by you if the most vulnerable still have no voice and are ground yet under the feet of industry. As long as you get to feel impressed with yourself because you backed a winner.

I'll continue to question, whether it pleases you or not. What you perceive as an attack is but a query, a disturbing vibration at the edge of complacency. Sit tight within your certainty and let it warm you. But if it turns out that we are right and you are wrong, will you go down with the ship like the Bushites, or will you finally leap free of the sinking monolith and join us in the frigid waters of doubt?

If faith came easily to me, I'd be a religious man. As it does not, I am not. In some respects such faith is enviable because it can placate the stirrings of anxiety. But sometimes anxiety can be the herald of truth. It is not in me to give any politician that much trust. So far few have earned it. Winning an election and speaking well doesn't quite do it for me for some reason.

However, I am not at all certain I'm correct in my assessement. I will state that plainly. But I think questioning authority is a far wiser course of action than blind trust.

Good luck with that.