Me and a work­ing col­league today dis­cov­ered that our points of view regard­ing some top­ics are quite oppo­si­tional. Dig­ging deeper I fig­ured that the dif­fer­ence is to be found at the very base of his beliefs. He actu­ally thinks the world can be viewed as “good vs. evil”. I told him that this is plain ridicu­lous but he didn’t budge. Any­way, that explains quite a lot I didn’t under­stand before.

This view of life cer­tainly has its mer­its, I grant him that. But it sucks if you crave for a bet­ter under­stand­ing of things like he says he does. Good forces ver­sus bad forces. Just think about it. It’s such an intrigu­ing con­cept, under­stand­able for every­one. It’s so sim­ple and effi­cient that “the play­ers” still employ it as a means of manip­u­la­tion. Isn’t it a pity that so many peo­ple fall for this “We’re the good guys” bull­shit? As a fact, nobody can be absolutely good or evil. We define what’s good and what’s evil, what we like and what we don’t. We cat­e­go­rize things and so it seems unlikely that evil guys can do good and vice versa.

We had quite an argu­ment about that until he finally gave in. As usual, some things can’t stand before the harsh facts. Strangely, I don’t feel good about that. Have I utterly destroyed his point of view? Isn’t it way eas­ier to believe in an illu­sion, if you know that things actu­ally are worse? I cer­tainly have the impres­sion that peo­ple don’t really want to know. That they don’t really look because they want to let them­selves get fooled. That’s some­thing to think about …