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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20399)	3/18/2004 12:14:20 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81840

I too have often marvelled and wondered how two individuals, confronted with the same information, living in the same space and time consistently come to diametrically opposed views. Both cannot be right, but both stubbornly cling to and earnestly believe their own reality. Many times the issues are complex and varied. Most of us latch onto the few facts that support our already pre-conceived notions and dismiss or undervalue those which don't fit in. The left right issue may well be genetic as you suggest. The ability to adjust and accept as inevitable things which we perceive wrong is good for our leaders because in the end, might makes right. And in time, we simply re-set or re-adjust our thinking to accept whatever we perceive the new reality to be. Except for certain stubborn ones on this thread. gg

To: sea_urchin who wrote (20399)	3/18/2004 5:28:07 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81840

Re: I often wonder if the way one is and sees the world isn't genetic and/or conditioned in childhood and there's actually little one can do about it? I sense no genetic component. In my own family, I'm the outlier, having a couple of sisters who voted for George Bush last time, and in spite of my occasional badgering about his criminality, will probably vote for him again. And I'm the only one of five siblings who really takes an interest in politics. As to conditioning in our youth, I again don't sense my views were shaped by the school or home environment I found myself in. My own enlightenment regarding politics started out at the age of 14 when I was convinced by a friend to join with him in a subscription to a Catholic publication called Ramparts Magazine which unbeknownst to me was one of the most radical publication in America in the 1960s. So, my introduction to the thought of the Left was almost serendipitous. While the main news was covering the civil rights movement, and the early phases of the Viet Nam War, there was nothing in the local newspaper or Newsweek or Time that would have directed me to become the avid seeker of truth as I was. In my high school class of 73 students, there were only two of us who were anti-war and vocal about it. Of course, we were the most knowledgeable people in the class, therefore ostracized for our views. Just as with SI, the great preponderance of the herd are happy members of the No-Nothing Party.