The real origin of fanaticism: emotion
Friday 09 March 2007 at 11:55 pmThis is just my effort to "put on paper" concisely what has been apparent for a while:
Emotional investment in abstract thought ----> dogmatism ----> fanaticism
(more)This is just my effort to "put on paper" concisely what has been apparent for a while:
Emotional investment in abstract thought ----> dogmatism ----> fanaticism
(more)Me: I'm a bright but hobbled "Scanner" with Asperger's Syndrome and ADD traits, fascinated by everything, a critical thinker, armchair ethicist and psychologist and anthropologist, agnostic, atheist, socialist, anti-capitalist, communalist, freethinker, and skeptic.
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