protecting narrow interests

What is demanded then is a return to these truths.our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed.IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT. YOU ARE SAYING I STRAYED FROM THESE TRUTHS FROM TOLERANCE AND CURIOSITY, LOYALTY AND COURAGE AND HARD WORK AND NEED TO RETURN TO THESE TRUTHS.

THAT IS A STUPID INSULT. YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY I WOULD THROW STONES AT A BLIND MAN. IT IS AN INTOLERABLE AND VICIOUS SWIPE AT MY INTEGRITY. HARD WORK. HONESTY??ARE YOU SAYING I HAVE STRAYED FROM HONESTY AND NEED TO RETURN TO THESE TRUTHS??? YOU DONT KNOW ME LIKE THAT AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY SUCH THINGS.A return to these truths??? Who abandoned these truths? Hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism ... When were these abandoned??! How do we return to truths we never left??! It's empty rhetoric. It fills the heart but not the mind. And that is never right. In fact, it is always wrong.Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. so that we might live a better life.

It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.??
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or factionBut our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF PUTTING OFF UNPLEASANT DECISIONS?? ? But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - HEY. I'M O.K. I DIDN'T STAND PAT OR PROTECT NARROW INTERESTS OF PUT OFF UNPLEASANT DECISIONS. DON''T ACCUS ME OF THAT. YOU SOUND LIKE CHUCK VERNOFF, WITH YOU STUPID ACCUSATIONS.
This is a fine compendium of your most salient
characteristics, lovingly culled from many of my objections to them.
We must let the past, with its thousands of nicks, go and genuinely begin afresh or there is no hope.

The motive for rehearsing grievances is neither justice nor clarity but vindictiveness. (a very untrue claim)

If you start with a sense of grievance, you will end there.

Don't you see this can't be about winning or losing legal struggles but about rebuilding true fellowship?

Recriminations lead only to more recriminations and end where they began.

There is no point in taking a road to nowhere lined with more pain.



Please meditate on this and learn the lessons of how acrimony often starts flying between us. And work on limiting it. Only a child has footstomping fantasies of omniscience and omnipotence--and that you can take not as a putdown but as a sober observation of behavior that all of us should seek to avoid, as I'm sure you'll agree.'ll try to practice calmness and calmly point out when you fall into one of the habits that I decry, some of which you accurately but ironically describe below. Anyone who's convinced that they're perfectly
decent is in for a shock--not only you, dear boy.Why don't you think about this, SERIOUSLY, until our next chat. Think some more and more deeply about your behavior. It's this kind of thing that has made many people, I know for a fact, give up on trying
to relate to you. And THAT'S serious! I can't figure out how to give others room to coexist in a conversational exchange. People shrink in horror when they find out how I really am. Only someone who can see past these terrible habits would stick around. All the others, including you would be "long gone" including many people you know for a fact have given up trying to relate to me. I attempt to control everything anyone says as soon as they've uttered a phrase. Or my conviction that I am always right by definition. I can't acknowledge that a conversation isn't all about me. I try to exert absolute control over the subject matter of a free conversation with another adult. But what could you expect from somebody who is arbitrary, abusive, rude, cruel, hostile, belittling, self-centered, childish, ungracious incapable of taking responsibility for his misbehavior, overbearingly intimidating, mean spirited. with an acute controlling propensity. Possibly "blocked by an astonishing degree of self-centered lack of empathy that you couldn't comprehend"? Somebody who can't behave like a friend, who has lectured you MANY, MANY times on how I'm just not interested in the events of your life and would rather talk technology or politics or my topic of the moment. Who treats you like a non human object. A sounding board for my topic du jour. See why no human being could tolerate such abuse.Your high school friends--sorry--often talked about your public antics with ironic and comic disapprovalFor us to relate productively, you need to become open to alternative modes of interacting that are kinder and mutual and sympathetic and civil, rather than, yes, truculent.You need to realize that relationship is a two-way street and you spend altogether two much time blaming me and excusing yourselfPossibly "blocked by an astonishing degree of self-centered lack of empathy that you couldn't comprehend"? arbitrary, abusive, rude, cruel, hostile, belittling, self-centered, childish, ungracious incapable of taking responsibility for his misbehavior, overbearingly intimidating, mean spirited. with an acute controlling propensity.Stop your fucking demands and insults or we'll stop communicating. Why don't you think about this, SERIOUSLY, until our next chat. Think some more and more deeply about your behavior. It's this kind of thing that has made many people, I know for a fact, give up on trying to relate to you. And THAT'S serious!The worst control freak you ever knew a child with footstamping fantasies of omniscience and omnipotence. A negative being who can't figure out how to give others room to coexist in a conversational exchange "beyond rude cruel and hostile belittling, depreciating (deprecating?) and insulting" ill-mannered and ungracious, blocked by an astonishing degree of self-centered lack of empathy . Convinced that I'm invariably right by definition. Someone so abusive that no self-respecting human being could tolerate me .Incapable of understanding elementary etiquette or of taking responsibility for my misbehavior. Who tries to exert absolute control over the subject matter of a free conversation with another adult. Who treats a friend like a non-human object .Highhanded. abusive.
"IF you defended your right to keep talking while I was in a paroxysm of coughing, then you need to be set right. Anyone who would bother to become acquainted with these lovely traits would shrink in horror, excepting only those few (me) who have known you long enough to care more about you than your behavior. Anyone who's convinced that they're perfectly decent is in for a shockI've truly had it with your penchant for arguing and your conviction that you're invariably right by definition. No more bullshit.When you've had some insight and are able to acknowledge that a conversation isn't all about you, we'll be ready to talk about some protocols to minimize/avoid such behaviors in future.Arrogant self-righteousness and adamant defensivenessWhen you've had some insight and are able to acknowledge that a conversation isn't all about you, we'll be ready to talk about some protocols to minimize/avoid such behaviors in future."If you defended your right to keep talking while I was in a paroxysm of coughing, then you need to be set right.
arbitrary, abusive, rude, cruel, hostile, belittling, self-centered, childish, ungracious, incapable of taking responsibility for my misbehavior, overbearingly intimidating, mean spirited. with an acute controlling propensity. Possibly "blocked by an astonishing degree of self-centered lack of empathy that you couldn't comprehend". The worst control freak you ever knew. I can't acknowledge that a conversation isn't all about me. I try to exert absolute control over the subject matter of a free conversation with another adult. That no human being could tolerate such abuse.
Stop parading your delicate sensitivity and sensibility.