First, I genuinely hope that you never find yourself in a position in which you have the option to contort yourself into insane shapes to try to cling to things you genuinely think you need in order to have a decent life. Far too few human beings are able to withstand such pressures with any kind of grace and dignity, and the majority of us fold into it. Yes, it requires an insane amount of mental gymnastics.
Keep in mind as well that these are people who are genuinely, truly convinced that truth is nothing more than what the powerful claim it is. They implicitly accept the post-modernist view that truth does not exist, it is unknowable, and so everything that anyone ever claims to believe in is nothing more than a claim to power. Any attempt to claim something as true is nothing more than "I have enough power to make you act as if this thing is true".
There is no disconnect, because there is no way to ever tell the truth in this worldview....
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branchandroot
Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
Date: 2024-10-18 09:23 pm (UTC)Keep in mind as well that these are people who are genuinely, truly convinced that truth is nothing more than what the powerful claim it is. They implicitly accept the post-modernist view that truth does not exist, it is unknowable, and so everything that anyone ever claims to believe in is nothing more than a claim to power. Any attempt to claim something as true is nothing more than "I have enough power to make you act as if this thing is true".
There is no disconnect, because there is no way to ever tell the truth in this worldview....