Name: Anonymous 2011-07-30 8:19
"He wore his heart on his sleeve." is an idiom that refers to somebody openly displaying emotions. This is a faulty idiom. When somebody wears his heart on his sleeve, he doesn't wear it in his chest. Similarly, people who wear their hearts in their chests may take out their hearts and display what's in their chest, but the display in itself is a moment where the heart is not in ones chest. Deliberately displaying emotions is not something that you do with the emotion in question, but with rationality bent on manipulation.
The same goes for political ideologies. A man who proudly says he stands to something, wears his ideology on his sleeve, as a suit instead of as a way of life. A man who puts his ideology down in political posts he writes in forums, doesn't carry it with him in daily life.
The same goes for somebody who identifies himself with an ideology. The more ideological he believes himself to be, the less he actually is. Usually this results in him excusing his actual behavior with scapegoating the opposing side as being far more extreme and despicable than he is being.
This is why all ideologists are liars, both to themselves and to others.
You might protest this loudly, and even grow genuinely agitated, but my mind is already made up. I'm simply stating what I've already learned.
The same goes for political ideologies. A man who proudly says he stands to something, wears his ideology on his sleeve, as a suit instead of as a way of life. A man who puts his ideology down in political posts he writes in forums, doesn't carry it with him in daily life.
The same goes for somebody who identifies himself with an ideology. The more ideological he believes himself to be, the less he actually is. Usually this results in him excusing his actual behavior with scapegoating the opposing side as being far more extreme and despicable than he is being.
This is why all ideologists are liars, both to themselves and to others.
You might protest this loudly, and even grow genuinely agitated, but my mind is already made up. I'm simply stating what I've already learned.