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“Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance … the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.”

 

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Charles de Secondat

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Terrorism.

 

Hate crime.

 

Religious intolerance

 

Extreme intolerance, in general, of other views.

 

Shit.

 

Let’s just say some level of extreme self loathing.

 

thou art a wack job nutjobI don’t really care about the label we may, or may not; put on the killing spree some nutjob went on in Orlando.

 

But here is what I thought about as I listened what was being said about the killer … functional nutjob.

 

 

He was an abusive husband, he showed some questionable enough behavior to be questioned by the FBI, he expressed extreme intolerance for gays … and he has had a steady full time job with a security firm.

 

A steady job.

 

And a steady job where he carried a gun.

 

And a steady job in which you assume day in and day out he went to work, did his job, got along for the most part with his fellow workers and left at the end of the day most likely after shooting the shit with some fellow workers.

 

And a steady job in which I will assume if we scanned his annual reviews he was … well … steady. Not the best employee, not the worst employee but most likely the type of employee most organizations have … the ones who show up, do their work, have some friends in the office, doesn’t really make any waves and get the steady evaluation grades which the standard employee receives.

 

But he was a functional nutjob.

 

Now.

 

I am not suggesting that all my points on a steady employee equals “functional nutjob” because most of those steady employees are good hard working people carrying around the normal everyday foibles all of us every day schmucks have.

 

But.

 

Within that steady employee group there are spouse abusers, some who harbor extreme intolerant views, some deviant behavior and … well … pick your poison.

There will be some who you are pretty happy you don’t know all the details in their personal life.

There will be some who give you a glimpse of some extreme intolerance for something or an extreme non mainstream point of view.

 

But day in and day out they function, in general rub elbows with coworkers in a reasonable way and the rest of the people know they can count on them to show up and get shit done.see what we look for

 

What I am trying to say is that while these functional nutjobs do not represent the majority of the work force … there is most likely a meaningful minority scattered among the daily work force.

 

If I had to offer a number … lets maybe say 14% … that’s kinda close to the % of people who voted for Trump <I am not suggesting his voters are all functional nutjobs>. Regardless of the % populating our world … 99% of them remain functional nutjobs.

 

I can honestly say I have only worked with one co-worker who I truly believed was capable of going out to his car and coming back in with a gun when he got fired <he was mostly functional but clearly a nutjob>.

 

But he was the only one I noticed. I assume that while I worked with some functional alcoholics, some functional drug addicts … I most likely also worked with some functional nutjobs.

 

For the most part nutjobs keep their true nuttiness to themselves <they most likely recognize it isn’t really a mainstream perspective>. But whether they share it or not … it travels with them wherever they go.

And I would assume nuttiness is just like any strong real mental belief system … some days when it gets challenged you kinda get grumpy. We, the rest of us, don’t get worried <hell … we may not even notice> until the nutjob gets angry.

 

And that is where motivation for the anger matters.

 

Religion.

Intolerance.

 

Perception of being marginalized.

 

Rejection.

 

Self loathing.

 

 

Pick the motivation.

self regulation motivation

The nuttiness of the nutjob means that the mind is already fertile ground for some mentally disturbing thoughts & voices.

 

It, ultimately, becomes a problem regardless of motivation.

 

It’s a problem [when] a young man who walked into a church in South Carolina and murdered nine people who offered to pray with him. It’s a problem when an angry young man on a college campus decides to shoot people because he feels like he’s disrespected. It’s certainly a problem when you have organizations like Isil or al-Qaida trying to actively promote violence.”

 

President Obama

 

 

I imagine it reaches a point where this voice cannot be reasoned with. The voice is immune to listening and immune to any rational dialogue. Evidence seemingly is only found I what is already believed, and perceived, therefore the unthinkable action becomes a viable option.

 

Some may call it being pushed over the edge.

 

I don’t.

 

I just think it is a functional nutjob who has found the motivation to make some statement about what they believe.

 

Regardless. It was a horrible act. Done by a horrible nutjob.

 

 

Politics drives me nuts.

 

Political rhetoric drives me nuts.

 

 

Was he Muslim? Yes.

 

Did he have a military type assault weapon? Yes.

 

Was this terrorism? I don’t know under the real definition … but it clearly terrorized.

 

Did he commit a hate crime? On this one … Clearly yes.

 

Was he mentally ill? I don’t know … but listening to his ex-wife he surely had some mental issues.

 

Was he an immigrant? No. he was an American citizen.

 

Was he a nutjob? Absolutely.

 

In a country in which there are over 320 million people I think it is fairly triumph over fear evilrational to suggest there are functional nutjobs scattered throughout the country.

 

The entire idea that we can eliminate all nuthobs is … well … silly. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be strident in our pursuit of safety for all in society. But it cannot, and should not, come at the expense of the liberties & freedoms which make USA who and what it is.

 

I imagine I am saying … we cannot let nutjobs win. We cannot let nutjobs dictate what makes America great.

 

I imagine I am also suggesting … stop calling it radical Islam, stop calling it terrorism, stop putting any label on this other than “nutjob who shifted from be functional to dysfunctional.”

 

And that is the bottom line.

 

This loser, this once upon a time functional nutjob, went out and delivered an immoral act killing innocent people acting as a dysfunctional nutjob.

 

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