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%EXTREMIST ACTORS PLAY MAIN FLOOR PEANUT GALLERY+990713
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Extremists are actors who play their games to impress
their specialized audiences from the main floor of the
house up to the peanut gallery. Extremists take firm
positions on contentious issues and seek to be committed
in crystal clear ways to pure positions. They contrast
their purity with the impurity of their complementary
opposites on the enemy side.
If truth be known --- the coherence of each
extremist's position is but a false appearance. When
extremists are asked test-case questions which are
appropriately chosen --- the extremists will play to the
peanut gallery and move farther and farther from the
balanced and coherent ways of wise people who affirm many
complementary ideals, values and principles. Extremists
are often encouraged in ways which lead them to take
positions which are obviously absurd to very large
fractions of the general population --- on such issues as:
1. Sexual restraint versus sexual spontaneity.
2. Financial restraint versus financial
extravagance.
3. Political restraint versus political dominance.
4. Love versus law, commandments, prohibitions, etc.
5. Pure research versus applied research.
6. Pure religions versus applied religions.
7. Religious purity-codes vs practical-health-codes.
8. Absolute Truth vs honest personal descriptions.
9. Text oriented religion vs personal relationships.
10. Objectivity vs open/honest reflexive relations.
When insecure people are preoccupied with issues of
control, scoring points, getting ahead, being securely
invulnerable, personal salvation, etc. --- they often go
to extremes in efforts to be right in getting it right for
their own sakes. They are likely to go to absurd extremes
in their efforts to succeed. They make tragic mistakes
from which they cannot seem to learn anything; so they try
harder in traditional ways.
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