Excellent commentary on the post, including the summary below. It shows how our ideas can become warped due to compartmentalized thinking. thank you!
“There are, as I said, many intelligent, smart, and capable people whose talents and minds are twisted by their ideology, and even though they may be intelligent, smart, and capable, their blind adherence to...something...makes them blind.
It also makes them tools. Useful Idiots.
Stephen Hawking was one of those people.”
I work in the bluest of blue states, and I work with a lot of people with Doctorate degrees who I get along quite well with, but...I don’t discuss politics with them.
But if you listen to people, you can easily tell where they are coming from.
And these people are good and talented at what they do, which makes their blind spot all that more egregious and puzzling to me.