Posted by 64bowtie on January 3, 2011, at 5:04:07
Accepting my role as partime caregiver for my octogenerian Dad has led me to a few unexpected epiphenae... The latest is his overreactions to questions about his behavior as if it threatened his very existence... I am tired of his screaming at me while he shakes like a cowering dog...
He gets into this mode in miliseconds (a really short amount of time, bordering on instantaneous)... The mystery of this behavior is actually that it is so pervasive... I have followed the information trail backwards from episodes and found a common thread...
I found that coercion or violence could have been averted by the knowledge of 1 or 2 simple missing facts... I started wondering how many murders could have also been averted thoughout history for the same reason...
Aren't crimes of passion rife with arrogance on the part of perpetrator??? Isn't a streetwise definition of arrogance being vain-ignorance??? So the pattern is developing that crime might be rooted in arrogance...
After all, knowledge trumps ignorance, especially ignorance that causes death(s)...
Rod
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