Proof of this is in the level of aggression displayed by all cultists.
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
I see your gist, here, but the STRONGEST certainty admits of all manner of disagreement. It just engenders a view askance of whew boy!, or even a certain contempt for the errant ... occassionally, a kinder "let me keep you from killing yourself with that wrongness". It's only fragile indoctrinated-certainty, "wrong but d*mn sure", that permits no interrogation.
Truth bears ALL examination, because it corresponds with reality. Constructions, even congruent ones - all of the various postmodernisms, for instance - bear progressively no examination as they "congrue" less and less. They do not correspond to reality, so critically looking them over undoes them; thus "DON'T LOOK!" (=Science!).
Trump triple-vaxxed. And he is enamored of his push to early release... In short, OP: you are right -- GEOTUS is part of the problem here.
His followers are not sheep, though, to bah to his whim.
Proof of this is in the level of aggression displayed by all cultists.
The difference is correspondence.
I see your gist, here, but the STRONGEST certainty admits of all manner of disagreement. It just engenders a view askance of whew boy!, or even a certain contempt for the errant ... occassionally, a kinder "let me keep you from killing yourself with that wrongness". It's only fragile indoctrinated-certainty, "wrong but d*mn sure", that permits no interrogation.
Truth bears ALL examination, because it corresponds with reality. Constructions, even congruent ones - all of the various postmodernisms, for instance - bear progressively no examination as they "congrue" less and less. They do not correspond to reality, so critically looking them over undoes them; thus "DON'T LOOK!" (=Science!).