Open-Minded or Just Full of Flawed Thinking and Digging It?
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 22:25 I’m often struck by those who would believe in absolute nonsense, and then when I express well… doubt, they fire back with “You should be more open-minded!” This seems to be their stock answer when facts or evidence - about everything from wacky vitamin regimens, detox ‘cleanse’ rituals, UFO’s, consipracy theories - fail them.
Actually, I like the folks who can fire back that they don’t care if what they believe is irrational. They just dig doing whatever it is. I knew a true-believer on the apple cider cayenne pepper maple syrup detox cleanse thing who was like that. And, she was a professional environmental scientist. There was some HUGE cognitive dissonance going on in there, and the detox thing was the least of her worries.
So, I rather liked this take on it all. As I watched, I got thinking about Tea Party true-believers … this fits them to a ‘T’.
Reader Comments (1)
Oh my goodness - this is my friend, Chris (paulrevere), to a T! And he's the farthest thing from a tea partier there is. You've jousted with him in the past over at my place.