fuagf -- and that denial not limited to scientific reality -- it's a wholesale denial of/stance against anything in reality that (as it is) they can't (obvert and twist to) 'fit' with/into their ingrained/habituated/pounded-into-them preferred imaginings/beliefs/narratives which they project from within onto reality to pre-filter what (and how) they do, and do not, see in and of reality -- for most of them, beyond those pure just totally batshit true believers on the one end of the spectrum, and the opposite pure just totally sociopathic/psychotic/oh-please-we-don't-actually-believe-a-word-of-it cynics (often, perhaps even typically, much involved in driving things) on the other, I think there's clearly an unresolved inherently deeply cognitively dissonant placing/holding together of both self-delusion and cynicism
(at the risk of berating the obvious -- . . .)
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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