I was on the receiving end of that kind of transformation by a college roommate during the Civil Rights Movement when I told him black people should not be disenfranchised. He immediately said that I should be shot and went into a rant. I later wondered whether my comment, dropped on him unexpectedly, was too far outside his ken for him to consider calmly. Sudden, angry transformation must be a marker of essentially instinctual belief, which is often programmed by the State.
I was on the receiving end of that kind of transformation by a college roommate during the Civil Rights Movement when I told him black people should not be disenfranchised. He immediately said that I should be shot and went into a rant. I later wondered whether my comment, dropped on him unexpectedly, was too far outside his ken for him to consider calmly. Sudden, angry transformation must be a marker of essentially instinctual belief, which is often programmed by the State.