2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ended a friendship today. [View all]cer7711
(502 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 20, 2013, 01:14 AM - Edit history (1)
I let out a low wolf-whistle of appreciation at how well you summed up the problem, re:
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" . . . that is pretending. If he isn't a child, then the days of 'let's pretend' are long over.
It is a denial of a fact that is inconvenient to his world view. It is a symptom of a deeper issue that he has with society, an anger so deep that he is willing to deny facts."
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That's it! That's exactly it, and the phrase that pays: " . . . an anger so deep that he is willing to deny facts." (Except I might have substituted the word "hysteria" for "anger." No matter. I suspect it's a mixture of both.)
Like an ardent neo-nazi who denys that the Holocaust ever happened because it harshes their blood-&-soil, National Socialist fervor (hard to feel good about yourself when you realize that you're openly aligning with a regime/political philosophy that murdered infants, the elderly and the infirm--among others--with all the moral compunction most of us would exercise in stepping on a roach) or a global-climate-change denier refusing to engage honestly with ever-mounting evidence and verifiable, objective facts, this paranoid, logic-contorting, "it's all-gun-hating-Obama-and-his-cabal-of-crisis-actors'-fault" conspiracist is either actively evil or so cognitively impaired that for all practical purposes he's gone stark raving stonkers.
In either instance, not someone I would care--or trust--to have around me.