Originally Posted by matthew
My theory is: the more a group of people espouse a principle, and the stronger they claim to adhere to it, so much the more is the real situation the exact opposite.

That right there is the Rule of the Opposite Thang! I most gen'ly sees it when Conservatives is talkin', so then it's ConROT.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller