Fighting with My Mother
Jun. 1st, 2004 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseThe only fights I have with my mother anymore are about politics. Like last night, for instance. We start off innocently enough and then she says something that I find annoyingly naive given her high level of intelligence AND WE'RE OFF! She, unfortunately, is as stubborn as I am and once our horns are locked, we don't give up.
Thinking back on our fight, I am struck by her accusation, "You make it sound like a conspiracy, TTL!" That has become a convenient rhetorical device in modern discourse. It means, I think, you are not living in the world of hard facts and reason; you are paranoid and hysterical and should realize that rational people would never think that. It's a discussion ender.
I, on the other hand, believed that the point I was making was brain-numbingly obvious to anyone with the least perspective on political life and the mainstream media. Hence, raised voices.
*sigh*
Thinking back on our fight, I am struck by her accusation, "You make it sound like a conspiracy, TTL!" That has become a convenient rhetorical device in modern discourse. It means, I think, you are not living in the world of hard facts and reason; you are paranoid and hysterical and should realize that rational people would never think that. It's a discussion ender.
I, on the other hand, believed that the point I was making was brain-numbingly obvious to anyone with the least perspective on political life and the mainstream media. Hence, raised voices.
*sigh*
