The_Hammer
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Obamas points are valid and make sense. His problem is that A) he's too honest and talks about reality. B) People don't want to believe that the way they think is fucked up.
When bad shit goes down and something effects you directly by which you have no control over it, the general thing that happens is that you attach yourself to things that "can't" (for the most part) be taken away ie guns (or the desire to have them), religion, racial identity, geographic location, pride etc. Things that exist in the abstract (except for guns and where you live obviously). Why do people do that? Because the real stuff that they had is gone and they quite literally have nothing left to cling to. It sounds condescending only if you don't want to realize it.
Some people like to attach themselve to those aforementioned things just because it makes them feel comfortable, despite the fact that they completely lack any utility (except for maybe guns or geographic location). And even when something has inherent utility, its utility is not the reason that people attach themselves to things. They do because the "like" it and they feel strongly about it.
When bad shit goes down and something effects you directly by which you have no control over it, the general thing that happens is that you attach yourself to things that "can't" (for the most part) be taken away ie guns (or the desire to have them), religion, racial identity, geographic location, pride etc. Things that exist in the abstract (except for guns and where you live obviously). Why do people do that? Because the real stuff that they had is gone and they quite literally have nothing left to cling to. It sounds condescending only if you don't want to realize it.
Some people like to attach themselve to those aforementioned things just because it makes them feel comfortable, despite the fact that they completely lack any utility (except for maybe guns or geographic location). And even when something has inherent utility, its utility is not the reason that people attach themselves to things. They do because the "like" it and they feel strongly about it.