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Jessica Rose's avatar

I think it actually might boil down to willful ignorance at the individual level. There are no coincidences: only choice. And most people choose to remain ignorant. It is incredibly hard, but everyday I try to make myself understand that my information feeds are gigantically different from others' information feeds. I try to imagine that most people have no idea what is actually going on. I do find it hard to believe that so many are so 'huh?', for lack of a better word. But what I find harder to believe is that such a grand majority of people are evil. Because, that's what we're talking about here. So I choose to believe they are good people who just can't cross their own cognitive dissonance barriers so either consciously or subconsciously, choose to remain ignorant.

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Logic fails to explain any of this. Because logic operates in a world of consequence and accountability. This is the material world of the natural order. However, at some point in the recent past, corporate and government leaders abandoned the material world as the context of their rationality. They began to believe that they transcend that world, and live in one where they can abuse logic and nature. This non-material world has only two values: money and power. They have structured a global system where they are the only winners. In 1983, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded The Templeton Prize. His acceptance speech is remembered for one sentence, “Men have forgotten God.” Nietzsche saw this. There are countless examples of people during the past century who not only forgot God but believed that they were God as they also forgot that the material world, the context for science discovery, operates as a natural order. We live under the tyranny of devils who will destroy the world. Only the natural world with its material resources has the capacity to recover. I thank God everyday for the incompetence of small-minded egotists. They will fail. And those of us who humbly respect the real, material world are ready and are already at work repairing and restoring the world that transcends their madness. For me this is where logic leads.

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