Once again, I try to reason with my family - only to discover they are immune to reasoning.
How strange! But also how common. They are not very different from all the other people around them - who cannot reason either.
I am reminded of what I learned about the South, in the American Civil War. Everyone but them noticed they were crazy. They went to their death (literally) convinced they were right. And remained that way for a hundred years - until the Civil Rights movements in the Sixties.
If you talk to them now, you will notice something even stranger - they have forgotten this part of their history entirely!
To understand this, I am forced to divide people into two categories - those who can think, and those who cannot - by far, the larger group. And I am forced to consider the implications of this - how this affects them, in many ways.
They will not think for themselves, they cannot. They will want what other people want - and not want, what other people do not want. And they are very good at detecting what this is.
They cannot tolerate ambiguity. When changes are made, they are changed suddenly. That way, everyone remains the same.
One other thing (and this is amazing) instead of being like everyone else, they can be nothing at all! And be perfectly comfortable that way.
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