Cleese's 1987 monologue on "extremism" is delightful and well worth the two minutes it takes to watch: What we never hear about extremism is its advantages. W

Cleese's 1987 monologue on "extremism" is delightful and well worth the two minutes it takes to watch: What we never hear about extremism is its advantages. Well the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies and all the goodness in the whole world is in you. Attractive isn't it? So if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway, and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons, and that if it wasn't for them you'd actually be good-natured and courteous and rational all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4