Here is a disease everyone suffers from. I am normally hesitant to write “everyone,” but in this case it truly applies.

The disease is called I.Y.H. That’s an acronym for “In Your Head.”

How much time do we spend inside our head chatting up a storm that no one can hear and is of no consequence? This inside meeting of the mind diverts us from what’s really happening as we churn out our edited, biased, reinterpreted version of reality.

The only consolation we can take in having this malady is that everyone else does too.

But I want to warn you of a more insidious disease that I found out about some 20 years ago. It’s called R.C.V.

R.C.V. is an ill that the late Dr. Dave Dobson discovered. It stands for “Rectal Canal Vision.”

R.C.V. is very similar to I.Y.H. with this one major distinction: Your head is up your ass.

The difficulty here is that even if you open your eyes, you’re still in the dark.

The only known treatment for R.C.V. is a major intervention.

Occasionally, it’s divine intervention that brings the cure, but that’s a rare occurrence.

We normally need someone’s help in extracting our head from this dark hole.

You know you suffer from R.C.V. when you deem your way, the only way in most circumstances.

Generally speaking, R.C.V.– ers are located on one of the far fringes of an ideology. It really doesn’t matter which far fringe they are on, they suffer equally, and so does anyone in their sphere that has bought into their insufferable, narrow focus.

People infected with R.C.V. are immune to the facts, so logic is not an extraction tool.

Shunning them drives them deeper into their hole to churn out more insane rhetoric. (Think the “Unabomber.”)

The problem today is that you don’t have to crank out your manifesto on an old typewriter; you now have the internet. All you need is a computer or a smart phone to attract a following of the dumbest people – people incapable of separating the wheat from the bullshit.

So what do we do to help those with Rectal Canal Vision? I’m reminded of the biblical phrase, “You will always have the poor among you . . .” Chances are, most of these people will die with this disease, but some can be saved.

Now this is only a guess, but I believe the cure is attention. It’s my experience that people with R.C.V. just don’t get enough attention. I’m not talking about attention to their convoluted message, but plain old attention to them as a human being. Put them in your presence and pay attention to them past their ideology.

It’s this giving of attention that brings light to their narrow living space and shines a light outward to a broader view. This isn’t talking them down; that never works. It’s giving them the time of day that helps them come out and play.

It’s not easy, but it is helpful. People are starved for attention. We can all do our part by giving attention to those we normally shun. It accomplishes two things at once. It briefly gets us out of our head with our preconceived notion of who they are; and it just may get their head out of their ass.

All the best,

John

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