Karpel Tunnel wrote:It must be hard for both of you living in precisely the wrong country so many years after having that would be remotely possible.WendyDarling wrote:Joker and I believe in racial separatism
Still, what always intrigues me about political commitments of this sort is less the arguments that folks make in defending them and more the sequence of variables in their lives that predisposed them to champion them in the first place.
And not something else.
Here [pertaining to the OP] there are facts that either will or will not see the light of day regarding the actual existential relationship between Trump and Putin. Something did happen. And in a particular order. But what? How close will Mueller and others come to sorting it all out?
But our reaction to the facts is considerably more convoluted. That's the part [for me] that gets all tangled up in "I" as an ever shifting and evolving existential contraption going forward in a world [labyrinthian at times] of contingency chance and change. There's just no way of predicting what you will think and feel a week, a month, a year from now.
The facts will stay the same. But our reaction to the accumulating facts may not.
That's why an objectivist frame of mind is so tempting. Once you zero in on right and wrong from a particular moral and political zeitgeist, any particular means and ends [as they relate to interpreting the facts] will be constantly shifting "in your head" in order to sustain the most comforting and consoling psychological zeitgeist.