Categorizing

THIS HAS BEEN MENTIONED BEFORE, but bears repeating. There are patterns to human nature and behavior. People can often be classified, with a fair degree of accuracy, into various groups, according to beliefs, preferences, and general behavior. One observable pattern of behavior, in which almost all people seem to participate, is the tendency to express highly questionable opinions and beliefs, despite any good supporting evidence, with absolute certainty, without so much as a trace of doubt, as if the issue has already long been settled,and it is time for everyone to agree and accept the false consensus. Climate change deniers are a perfect example. Rarely if ever do you hear anyone express the slightest uncertainty abut climate change.Either it is absolutely a proven fact, or, it is clearly, obviously a hoax. There seems to be no in between. Wouldn't you think and expect that out of millions of people, there would be at least a few of them who honestly admitted uncertainty, admitted to not knowing for sure whether climate change is real, or fabricated? How can everyone be so absolutely dead certain, when it took scientists so long to finally decide themselves? The people who do not believe in climate change often do not believe that vaccinations are effective,and generally tend to mistrust science. They are always absolutely certain that vaccinations will have some harmful effect,absolutely certain. No question about it. The veneer of absolute certainty is precisely that; a veneer, a facade to cover actual indecision, cognitive dissonance, and uncertainty, for to show uncertainty is a weakness, and to reveal weakness is to give a potential enemy an advantage. Pathetic little creatures, aren't we? Or so it sometimes seems...As Goethe said, "WE are united by sentiment, and sundered by opinion". And so we are. We all express the same, united , grieving feelings at the death of a beloved one, or the occurance of a national disaster, but when in normal times we exchange opinions about such matters, we cannot seem to agree, and we disolve in argument and dispute. I am categorically, unabashedly unwilling to even consider the possibility that climate change is some kind of hoax, a conspiracy, a rumor intended to give more power, somehow, to the government. I won't consider it because it seems flatly impossible. Yet, to others, it is not only possible, not only probable, but it is absolutely true, it is stark, naked reality. To me, that anyone could be so convinced of something so outrageous and stupid is utterly amazing. The climate change deniers tend to be the same people who deny the twenty twenty presidential election, the election deniers. Yes, they tend to be the same people, which makes it sensible to question their sanity. Nothing is more obvious than that Biden won the election, and Trump's claim of a stolen election was and remains a complete lie, a transparently obvious lie, a lie for which Mr.Trump may eventually pay a very high price. But the obvious craziness of the lie is lost on those who are believers, to whom the stolen election is a cold, hard, irrefutable, immutable fact. So uncomfortable are they in their denial of climate change and the election results, because deep down they know that they are dead wrong, that they cannot bear to express even the slightest sliver of uncertainty about their actual existence; they are dead set certain that they are both hoaxes. That's how sick these people are; very.