I have read some of the most ridiculous nonsense you can possibly imagine at the DUmp, but this little ditty ladies and gents is in the top 5 of just plain stupid posts of all time. What the hell is wrong with these people? It just can't be possible to be this blind to reality...WTF!
McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 06:08 AM
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25. Yeah at the same timeIm sticking my head out the plane to see if the pilot who told me we are landing in sniper fire is pulling my leg or if my head will really get shot off.
Guys, can you be any more obvious about your biases?
Hillary was told the plane had to change course because of gunfire. This poor scared woman with her daughter heard "gunfire" and her mind was filed with images of gunfire on the the runway. They told her she would have to run and she imagined it. You can actually get PTSD from an imagined frightening event if it is scary enough and the thought of your kid facing that is pretty nasty. So, she laid down a false memory.
12 years later, when she was telling the story, her adrenalin kicks in. She is thinking "Why am I getting so nervous telling this story?" The image of gunfire on an airfield goes through her head. It has been so long since the event that she can not tell the difference between something she saw with her eyes and something she pictured and something she saw on a video by this point. She tells the story in a way that is consistent with her own memory of fear. It seems authentic to her. That is how people tell their stories. They make the details match their emotions---since memory of details is so flawed but our memory of emotions is so vivid. The listener judges the authenticity by looking to see if the details match the emotion.
Anyone who knows anything about writing or story telling or the way people function under stress can tell you this---but no one here wants to hear anything except that Hillary is poo.
Since Obama has written best sellers, I can guarantee you as a writer and editor that he has not always written the "factual truth" because such a text would be unreadable. In order to convey the emotional truth of his story he has had to alter some things---sometime consciously and other times unconsciously to make the story that appears on the page resonate for the reader the same way that it resonated for him in real life.
That is not called lying. It is called art.
I have to agree, knowing full well that calling something a top 5 stupid post at DU is no small thing.
It's not your general wacky CT, troop bashing, commie supporting, bouncy tale or generic nonsense you see every day at DU. This is something else. It reads, IMO, like an honest post, in the sense that I think the poster believes what they say. However it's downright creepy in its self delusion. There is a mind hard at work here at the task of destroying itself and its capasity to reason. Unlike DU's typical drivil the post does not make me mad or make me laugh... it makes me sad.
Sigh. Just my reading of it anyway.
