Doubling Down on Political Insanity

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Gary discusses more recent craziness coming from politicians and celebrities about transgenderism and sports.

This is a general truth about human nature. Though we think we are infallible about what we believe, we aren’t. In some psychologically high-stress or high-intensity situations, we are often prone to be wrong about what we believe, because we’ve been told that the really progressive or politically correct thing is to believe something and yet in our heart of hearts we don’t believe it. But we put on the outward show and we want to convince ourselves that that’s who we are, even though we aren’t. People can be wrong about what they actually believe.

Let’s use an atheist professor as an example. Suppose he’s a professor of chemistry. You’ve been asking him questions and he gets frustrated. He can’t answer your questions about morality and the possibility of doing science and so on, and he says, “Look, I don’t know why nature is uniform. I’m not even sure I can justify that belief. But I don’t need to, because we’re doing science. We’re doing chemistry and I can’t answer your question, so you must be wrong. You don’t have to know why nature is uniform in order to do chemistry.”

Remember the distinction between beliefs and justifications for them. Now, do I act only based on the beliefs I can justify, or do I act on my beliefs? Imagine a child jumping out of bed when he hears thunder and crawling under the bed. You come in and ask why he did that, and the child tells you there are terrible things out there in the dark. Can the child justify that belief? No. But did the child hesitate to act on that belief? No. And most people don’t.

Most people don’t say, “I’m going to wait until I can be absolutely sure of everything, and then I’ll start acting.” We act on our beliefs, proven and unproven.

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Gary discusses more recent craziness coming from politicians and celebrities about transgenderism and sports. Proving that they are completely out of touch with the vast majority of Americans, these people are saying downright crazy stuff… and then repeating it. It’s no longer forgivable as “political” speech; it is just pure insanity.

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