What are we good at?

I believe in humanity.  I believe that we humans are one race.  One species.  We are similar.  Science agrees with me, but many participants (including scientists) do not.

That is beacause what we are best at in the whole world is dichotomisation.  It is something that human beings do exceptionally well.  Binification (binarization?).  Turning every single event and experience into Us and Them.  Wrong or Right.  Good or Bad.  There must be a scale for judging everything and we feel most comfortable when things are at one extremity or the other. 

Fuzzy complexities that say "It was okay apart from that bit, but when you think about it it makes sense from another perspective..."  is not how we want things. 

This is a bit of a concern, as the universe does not exist in this fashion.  The universe is not simplistic; it is complex.  Where we see binary dichotomies, there in fact exist complex, multi-dimensional spectrums

This is problematic enough, but not only does the universe exist in the form of complex. multi-dimensional spectrums of each type of thing... but so do we.  Even the most black and white, conformist, reactionary, extremists amongst us are in fact complex and multi-dimensional.

The reason extremists are often very angry people is that trying to force a multi-dimensional complex universe to conform with your extremist binary perspective is very difficult and involves the most intense level of justification.  We must in fact re-order the universe to conform with our ego.  The simplest way to do this is to be extremely naiive.  Always believe the first thing you were told and reject every piece of conflicting information as propaganda from the devil (or equivalent).  Or else you can use the wonderful faculty of justification.

And that brings us to the thing human beings are second-best at.  From one side it is called justification or  rational(ization).  From the other side it is called denial.  We are all very very good at it.  Thank your ancestors.  Depending on how valuable our ego is to us relative to the facts, we can convince ourselves of anything we want.  I know people who have never done anything wrong (or interpretable as wrong) in their lives.  And I bet a dollar that you do too. 

Whether we grip tightly or are more relaxed we all want to be right and we are all afraid of being wrong.

"GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, LET THOSE PALESTINIANS FREE"

Why would President Obama stand up at the United Nations and reiterate propaganda about
Arabs waging war on Israel that every reasonable person on the planet saw through decades ago?

Why would President Obama go back on his own position of only a year ago, when he supported Palestinian Statehood, and called for Israel to halt the illegal settlements on the occupied West Bank?

Why would President Obama decide to further sour ties with the Arab world at a time when  it looks very much as if the tides may be changing, as political institutions installed and upheld by the US and the West are being overthrown. 

Well, the first rule of detecting, is to ask "Who stands to gain from this state of affairs?"

As usual this line of investigation points clearly to one person, President Obama.  (For Israel it will merely uphold the status quo). Who knows the specifics of the deal he has struck with Zionists in Israel and the US, but whether the blank cheque we can all imagine is spent on his personal campaign or on bolstering the cracked foundations of his nations economy, the result is the same.  Better chances in the polls.

It is obviously very important to Obama to get voted in for another term as President.  Personally I would have thought that someone, who initially appeared to be so morally driven, would have had enough of the games and the lies and the manipulation.  So the question I have come to ask my self now is what is the cause of this desperate desire to continue as President (I would say "in power" but I am starting to wonder if that phrase is relevant to the position of United States President)

Does Obama want to continue because he knows that with another term he can turn the country around and leave a lasting legacy that will boost the self esteem of all afroamericans, and improve living conditions for all?

Or is he so terrified of what will happen if the Tea Partyers get their person in, that he would do anything to avoid it? 

Or is it just ego?

These are interesting times, as they say when the sky is about to fall.