Eric's Metamorphosis

For those who know me, it’s no secret that I’m interested in politics. Although I claim no expertise, there is a concerted effort on my part to develop my opinions in a reasonable time frame and from reliable sources all while doing my best to avoid a dogmatic approach to issues we face. Of course in architecture, a lot of what we learn passes through an imaginary filter of theoretical interpretations because, let’s face it, no one has enough time to consider each and every fact/opinion out there. The same goes with my political leanings. One of my filters is that if a substantial amount of ignorant, yet loud and mentally tweaked out people rally together over a single issue and start comparing such disparate things as a man who attempted to wipe out a race of people and a man with whom they disagree on certain political issues who has not attempted nor succeeded in killing several million people, then their position is probably not for me. The same tribe of screamers that said “support our president or get out of the country because it’s un-American to challenge him” have so quickly switched to the repetitions that the president, himself, is un-American (either in the form of citizenship or on a basis of going against the principles that America was built on). The following video brought all this to my mind. People calling for Glenn Beck to be president (a man of deplorable scruples all for the sake of ratings, willing to exploit his viewers and bastardize the media) or claiming that Obama’s name “in its content” means anti-Christ make me that much more proud of my president and pushes me that much further in my appreciation of leftist ideals.