I'm always interested in what people believe in. I'm even more interested in what people believe in when it doesn't make sense (to me). Unlike, I suspect, many of us here, I do enjoy reading things I don't agree with, or that I profess to be uninterested in (the extraordinary rendition of syntax).
The documentary warned me of the fact that the individual eccentricities and unique world views of individuals that I so admire, can also translate into mass hysteria. But chicken or egg? Mass hysteria is dangerous. I disliked the total submission to the Beatles in the Sixties. I dislike any 'movements'. I love paradoxes.
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To quote wikipedia: A paradox (Gk: "aside belief") is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The word paradox is often used interchangeably and wrongly with contradiction; but whereas a contradiction asserts its own opposite, many paradoxes do allow for resolution of some kind.
nuff said... You can't be me, I'm taken
so a paradox is a contradiction with an escape route... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
So, no paradox. "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
