Micro tremors people don’t notice are blamed by skeptics for ghost sightings. Disorients them, it’s claimed. Sure, a dizzy or blurred instant from a tremor might boggle someone, but can an unnoticed shiver of the earth prompt hallucinations?
Skeptics also blame local wildlife for sounds locals hear, even though the sounds are characterized by locals as unusual. As if locals wouldn’t recognize animals they grew up around.
It’s patronizing, what skeptics do and say. It’s condescending and insulting. All the skip dicks care about is providing some kind of explanation, regardless how implausible. Who do they hope to fool? Do they care if anyone believes them? Or are they, like Trump and other malignant narcissist bullies, focused only on themselves, on playing a role of arbiter and expert?
That last is my view.
Ignorant both willfully and with malice, they imagine theirs is the only reality, that no one else’s view counts.
This is anti-intellectualism and anti-science, even as they cloak themselves in scientific terms and strike scientific poses, making false claims to be dedicated to science, reason, and logic.
It’s double-think.
We have witnessed this in the Trump mis-administration. Idiots gave murderous advice while real science, tried and true methods, and recommended preparations were ignored. Mindless to have let it happen, it became suicidal to let it continue.
Not prosecuting criminals, ignoring heinous high crimes, only worsens things.
We can support and sustain our democratic-ish systems while disqualifying illegitimate present dunces, presidents*, and ideological cults of nihilism masquerading as political parties. In fact, surviving these shits demands we clear them out and permanently isolate them from society.
But we won’t.
We’ll normalize and let the cancer keep growing until it kills us all.
“ … the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity ..” as Yeats wrote.
Make a comfortable bunker, lay low, and ride out extinction. It’s all one can do with things as they are.
Or we could change things for the better, but … well …
We won’t.
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