Zero Tolerance, Evil Objects, and the Psychosis of the Left
Progressives pride themselves on their highly evolved psyches, their awe-inspiring good intentions and their admirable sense of right and wrong. Indeed, so sure are they that they are right, disagreement can only be an insult. Opposition triggers instant hatred, in a chorus chanted so loudly that nothing said, no evidence presented, will be heard or considered. Indeed, in order to cement a belief, whatever the left decides to believe magically becomes new science, granted an exemption from any sort of scientific process because the leftist has declared that a consensus of leftists makes something scientific. Belief alone is the sole test. This process is, quite literally, detached from reality, as if written by an inebriated Charles Dodgson.
Yet, how evolved or scientific is it to believe something that cannot be true under the laws of nature? Isn’t history full of cultures that believed in impossible things because their place in time, or the limited information available to them, fed their fears and amplified their illusions? Human sacrifice pleased their gods. Birth defects were punishment for sin. Witchcraft explained accidents or coincidences. Such creatures would be considered primitive and un-evolved in our time, given the span of human progress, the explosion of knowledge, and the fact that we are at the pinnacle of whatever evolution we have undergone so far. We look back at the prejudices of such people and recognize, from our more informed and enlightened perch, that their beliefs were driven by their limited ability to know the reasons for what occurred around them, and that in the absence of knowledge, irrational fear needs the comfort of answers, even if contrary to nature.
How then to explain that, despite human progress, such people are still among us in astounding numbers, defying the very Darwinian theories to which they have vehemently sworn allegiance? Proudly, even aggressively, they practice the ignorance our species has spent centuries overcoming, reverting to the purely emotional embrace of mythology and superstition to explain what they do not understand, or to validate their deeply held prejudices, even though evidence refuting their fantasies is readily at hand. Aside from the latest superstition that weather is punishment for man’s misdeeds, fewer delusions are more firmly held on the left than the pure certainty that guns, despite being inanimate objects, are possessed of evil.
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