I couldn’t have said it better, I really believe you are right. Part of what you describe is what I call “willful ignorance”, the steadfast refusal to see what should be obvious. Carried to extremes it results in cultural insanity engulfing entire nations and manifesting in practices like the footbinding that used to be done in China. A person has to expend a great deal of energy in buying into that sort of insanity and once they do they cannot afford to ever face the truth. Ayn Rand explained it all very well but I don’t remember exactly where in her writings that she went into it.
Simple things help sanity too, like nutrition, sleep, not getting high. Avoiding isolation, having spouses, family, friends. We have a neighbor who is far less “crazy” than she used to be just because her brother moved in with her. A relationship with God, spiritual disciplines matter to sanity. Bundle all that together with the habits of the mind that I was talking about earlier and that’s sort of my nascent view of insanity. I know I’m right to some degree . . . just don’t know the degree.
(and by God I mean the Judeo-Christian God, the God, not the gods of these cults of death).
A person has to expend a great deal of energy in buying into that sort of insanity and once they do they cannot afford to ever face the truth.
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The key thing for the left to realize is that they’ve been lied to, consciously, by many in academia and in the media. Once they see that . . . they should be able to change their minds.