Rationalization is higher order ego defense used by 99% of people, they tend to rationalize EACH and EVERY action and feeling of themselves and not just self but each and every action or feeling of others..
Just as we can’t live without giving reason to each and everything or our life will be in trouble if we don’t have reason for something..
One of the famous poet just gave words to what I feel about this and I am so thankful to that person for this..
Rationalization
Knowing someone in a comprehensive way can be
A little frustrating
When I detect the waving red flag presence
Of rationalization.
How can I truly understand who they are
Deep inside
When their outside thoughts, their words, are
Excuses,
When their outside thoughts are
Justifications.
Sometimes, rationalization is simply
An effort
To salve an ego dinged by a pellet of error,
A mistake
Colored up so a person knows it wasn’t
His fault.
Probably, those instances aren’t important enough
To matter.
But other times, rationalization is something much more
Ominous.
When a person is fabricating a chain of reasoning,
A cover-up,
For something they believe but know deep down
Is wrong,
Then, the only conclusion I can make is
To distrust.
One only needs to remember what slave owners did
To excuse
Themselves from treating slaves like the people
They truly were.
The oligarchy of the South actually wrote books
Of instruction
Claiming that slaves were stupid and could not
Learn
And that they had to be treated like children —
Simply,
And that, like children, they might have to be disciplined
Harshly.
So, slave owners gave themselves reasons to take away
Freedom.
Thus, today when I hear politicians saying people are
Stupid,
When I hear them saying that people don’t deserve
Help,
When I hear these propagandists discouraging people
From voting,
And justifying all of this by saying people are nothing but
Leaches,
Then, I become suspicious about whether they are honest
About anything.
by Terry Roice
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