Situation normal: we are a nation of incredibly fucking stupid people.
Take this story, by the Pew Research folks: In 2007, 77% of Americans believed that A) the climate was changing and that B) human activity was at least partially to blame. As usual, the same group of 22% vastly represented the denier camp. Today, a mere 18 months later, only 37% believe that human activity has anything whatsoever to do with climate change...and barely half (56%) even think that climate change is occurring at all.
I understand how half of America can disbelieve something they can see with their own eyes, and measure with empirical certainty...such as the melting of the fucking Greenland Ice Sheet.
Contrast that lunacy with these fucking scary numbers:
- 57% of Americans believe they are protected by guardian angels
- 25% say that God has personally spoken to them
- 20% have witnessed miraculous healings
- 18% have been the subject of a miracle
- 8% "speak in tongues"
Sorry global warming; I win...because I am the product of imagination, cannot be measured, am not demonstrable in any sense whatsoever, and rely on people's dual need for wish-thinking and fears of their own death and insignificance. Is that logical? Make sense to you?
I wish I could put this in more flowering, billowy language, but I just can't. Americans are perhaps the most credulous, least engaged, least intelligent, educationally-impaired, superstitious, deity-besotted group of people in the "civilized" world. And, the world (particularly America) slide slowly into senescence and ignorance; as our planet becomes more polluted and less habitable; as fear and tribalism and theocrats dominate us; and, as the lights of industrialization dim...we'll have no one to blame but our damned selves
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