“For he looks in the mirror & sees himself, and immediately turns away & forgets what kind of man he is”

Gazing on the Gorgon is very painful.

Especially when we see something about how our worldview is wrong & that worldview is part of our identity.

We prefer to turn our heads.

It doesn’t help that the right is basically calling the left idiots & the left is basically calling the right idiots.

Makes it hard to gaze at the gorgon and see the other side.

For example, I believe both the right & the left are correct about the War in Iraq.

We needed to do something, we then messed up *REALLY* badly, and finally fixed it with the surge.

So “When George W. Bush began to have misgivings about the strategy his commanders were pursuing in Iraq, he forced himself to look upon Medusa, as it were, and re-think his position.”.

So Bush can be commended to re-thinking his position. And doing what was neccessary, and fixing the problem.

Still. That means the left was correct. He did mess up. Badly. In Iraq.

And he hasn’t admitted that.

And it makes the left very angry. Rightfully so too.