In my limited experience, even the most unintelligent and backwards people say they believe in science but contend (because this is what their online “research” has taught them), that disciplines like epidemiology and climate change are driven by money and politics, rather than science itself.
Frankly, I have some level of sympathy for these folks, and I count myself lucky that I happen to know a significant number of high-level scientists in these fields, and thus I can vouch for their integrity personally.
Also, my brain is wired along the lines of what philosopher David Hume wrote: “We always disbelieve the greater miracle.”
What’s more likely? That millions of people, all around the globe, with “MD” and “PhD” after their names, working in research institutions and hospitals, conspired to develop and disseminate a story that COVID-19 was a serious disease when they knew it was no more dangerous than the flu? Or, alternatively, that these people followed legitimate science to reach their conclusions, and took measures to prevent even worse outcomes than those we actually experienced?
When I come across a conspiracy theorist whose ideas are completely baseless, it reminds me that, in so many ways, we’ve lost our ability to think. Then we see phenomena like Trump rising in the polls, and we have to admit that this is all completely predictable.
Nobody knows.
Without doubt, the damage is profound. The world has recognized that the United States is being commanded by a madman and has abandoned its place as the leader of the world.
As we look back across history, we see a certain shelf-life to democracies. It’s easy to believe that we’re in the final days of what became of ancient Greece. It’s also possible, as numerous scholars have asserted, that we’re on the precipice of the sixth extinction.
But it’s entirely possible that the pendulum may start to rebound toward the days of America’s greatness, the time of truth and fairness.
We’ll see.
A dwindling number of hateful idiots still cling to the ideas at left.
But what was once 77 million is now approximately 45 million, and that number is falling every day, as Trump leads us deeper into corruption, economic ruin, and the revulsion of our former international allies.
Maybe we’ll see a meme like this in a month or so, when the president’s approval rating has declined into the teens, but I doubt it.
As an archconservative, Sowell disagrees with me on virtually everything, though I normally can find some merit to his position.
That’s not the case here, where “multiculturalism, diversity, and gender awareness” mean acceptance and tolerance, the precise opposite of “hating each other.”
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