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Now we are bargaining with the climate gods : Comments
By Lyn Bender, published 16/7/2013Kubler-Ross identified five stages in dealing with terminal illness - denial, anger, bargaining, despair and acceptance.
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You have been watching that psychobabble on YouTube which claims that "conservatives" have "absolutist" mindsets, haven't you?
OK, now in order to deprogram you, you need to perform a physical act which is called "concentrating". Then you must ignore your own subjective prejudices and turn on your objective critical analysis circuit. OK so far?
Right. Now, listen to me and use your head. What the YouTube ratbags who posted that stuff up "forgot" to tell you was that "Absolutist" personalities exist in any sort of political, religious and social movement. A PETA animal rights activist could in no way be called "a conservative" but they do have an absolutist position on animal rights. Does that make sense? Thought so, you are coming along fine.
People with "absolutist" personalities are unable to see shades of grey, they can only see black and white. Moral priorities and moral uncertainties can not exist for them. Something is either absolutely right or absolutely wrong.
All religious movements have people who do think entirely in this way, and they make up the religious fundamentalists of every religion. But such people also exist in political organisations of both the Left and the Right. Pol Pot's bunch or communist loonies who mass murdered pretty Cambodian girls, and even anyone who wore a pair of glasses, were quite obviously people who were Absolutist personalities. Agree? You are really on the ball today. The great German physicist Max Plank, who pleaded with Hitler to go easy on the German/Jewish scientists, noted after one meeting that Hitler could only think in absolutes. Stalin was no different. Anyone who disagreed with him got shot.
Social organisations can also contain very dedicated people who hold absolutist views. Greenpeace is full of them, and so is the US National Rifle Association.
Now, have you figured out they are quite deliberately massaging a psychological truth in order to advance their social theories? They know that you are smart enough to grasp what they are saying, but they know that you have not studied psychology and can be suckered.