John Cleese on Extremism

Bush must have studied this.



As an extremist, "You can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified. So you can strut around abusing [or torturing] people and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of truth, a fighter for the greater good. And not the rather sad paranoid schizoid you really are."

"Attacking our enemies always makes us feel good, and excited. In fact, just about the only disadvantage to extremism is that it can never solve problems...Solving problems involves frustrating things like listening to people with different views and learning from them."