Mike Savage calls liberalism a “mental disorder”. I’m afraid that disordered minds may be in the majority today. I can certainly understand why, after so many years of brainwashing, Hitler’s ideas were accepted by so many among the young. There comes a point when a polluted brain loses its capacity to reason, understand or accept truth. Bob
“There comes a point when a polluted brain loses its capacity to reason, understand or accept truth.”
You’re cutting close to the heart of the matter there. I think though, that it’s not just a matter of the brain losing its capacity to reason, but a person, consciously, or unconsciously, preferring to choose not to reason. It’s more comfortable in many ways to simply turn off the part of your mind which might ask uncomfortable questions. If you allow them to fester, they may end up prompting you to take a stance outside the mainstream. The fear of how that would change other people’s perceptions of you is a strong motivator to stay within the defined boundaries of “acceptable thought”.