Musings on the Human Condition

Humans. You gotta love them. Many of them believe that that there are different races of humans on the planet when biology, genetics, and evolutionary anthropology show that there is only one. Many of them believe that their human group, whether their human group is a clique, a political party, a nation, a religious group, an ethnic group, or some other of the many identity groups out there, is the greatest thing since Haagen-Dazs Coffee Ice Cream. Note the ethnocentritic holier than thou better than you arrogance here. Of course, not every one of those groups can be the greatest since the notion that our group is the height of evolutionary achievement logically cancels out all the others. Again, I give arrogance and ethnocentrism.

Take the clique of Gibney and the Cult of the Orange One. Both of these groups believe that their group is superior to all others, particularly their evil others such as, in the case of the former, the right wing Republicans who they almost constantly belittle because they look down upon them as a subspecies, and dissidents like socialists and conservatives, who they knee jerkingly belittle thanks to a regimen of brainwashing socialisation. The Cult of the Orange one likewise believes in the superiority of their little identity group and they likewise believe that their nasty other, in this case the Democrats, and their other nasty evil other, socialist/commie/nazi/anarcist/dissidents, are little better than vermin. Note the manicheanism present in both of these identity groups. 

Apart from the fact that both of these groups are the same--they believe they are the greatest thing since sliced bread and they believe that their evil opposite is conspiring to take over the US--what is also humourous is their feigned innocence. Daily they belittle their evil other putting them down for their idiocy, vanity, stupidity, moronicity, and just plain Blue and Red Meany meaness. When the same is done to them or when their hypocrisy is empirically noted, however, they feign innocence playing the Sgt. Schultz card. Hypocrites, pots, and kettles they all be.