That’s just nuts.

Liberals never see conservative thought or policy other than through the leftist lens of their chosen media, so its always distorted. I believe it is impossible for a regular consumer of, say, CNN or MSNBC to know reality when it comes to politically related information. When I try talking with my liberal friends, its clear we exist in separate worlds that cannot be reconciled with logic.

The two most important increasingly rare characteristics in our society are intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills.

Thus, a person who fervently believes in man made global warming will believe it no matter what his lying eyes tell him, e.g. NONE of the dire predictions of the global warming doom-sayers have come to pass–the Westside Highway in NYC is still not underwater, the ice caps are still there, no island nations or even Florida are underwater, we still have snow..I could go on and on.

Nothing will change their minds, and none of them question the “need” to eliminate fossil fuels, nor understand what the impact would be on their quality of life. They would likely not survive, and their children would most definitely not thank them for the quality of life bequeathed to them.

Many of my liberal friends still think Trump colluded with Putin to defeat Clinton. They’ve tuned out all else, as they tuned out how mentally compromised Biden was/is despite seeing many of his obvious issues with their own eyes.

We could use “bubble” in another sense to refer to politicians’ reputations and to the passing fads that rise and grow and eventually pop. When the “bubble” of Bush or Obama or Biden pops people come to see them in a less exalted light and some agreement is possible. By the end of his term, nobody much liked G.W. Bush. It was similar with Lyndon Johnson. Today, some people like Obama and some hate him, but few view him as a savior. Now that Biden isn’t the alternative to Trump, the media and Democrat bigwigs are willing to venture some limited criticism of the man and his inner circle.

First, Griffin, thanks for the explanation.

Second, I don’t think it’s technology feeding us more information than we can handle, we can pick and choose that level. The Library of Alexandria had a lot of information in it. But I do think technology eliminating distances causes anxiety and stress.

We are hard wired to pay attention to potential threats and when our incoming information of potential threats expands from our local neighborhood to the world it’s more than most of us can rationally manage. If the news starts featuring stories of child abductions in Asia and Africa mothers in the U.S. stop letting their children play and walk to school unchaperoned.

I agree with Molly Brown. Decades ago I realized it is OK if I do not have an opinion on everything someone may ask me about. Knowing what you don’t know is helpful for one’s sanity.

There is only one way to read the “86 47” photo he posted on social media. The fact that this man wandered some beach to gather the items is also disturbing. Trump derangement syndrome is truly a sickness, and this one ironically should lead to a visit from FBI agents as to what the hell Comey was thinking about killing the president.

The caption read, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”

He later deleted the post and said he didn’t know what ’86’ meant. He’s still in hot water with the real Feds.

https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/05/16/scott-jennings-a-democrat-just-admitted-that-all-the-political-persecution-of-trump-backfired-on-them-n2412872

Some of the collected tweets:

While laughing about it. Like, whoops putting him in prison for life and trying to murder him, was just politics. These people are fricken psychotic and they don’t even realize how insane they are.
— Jo?? (@JoJoGenX) May 15, 2025

lol side note the fact that they can sit there and laugh and joke ab trying and coming close to potentially ending a man’s entire life for political purposes like it’s nbd is crazy work
— av (@xvxavx_) May 15, 2025

You make an interesting point about schizophrenia. My college psychology professor once said that she had seen schizophrenic patients all over the world, across many languages and cultures, but they all had one thing in common: they all had a strange, goat like laugh that sounded like “heh heh heh”. Now, granted she did her research decades ago, but if it’s true, that lends credence to the theory that schizophrenia is partially biological in origin.

If I remember correctly Weinstein explained it as humans have evolved slowly and our surroundings have also evolved at similar rates. There were minor changes but a person living in 1700 wasn’t much different than a person living in 1800. You knew the people around you and talked to the people around you only. You had no idea what was happening 200 miles away let alone the other side of the world so you would expend little mental energy thinking of these things. Now on the other hand we have access to massive amounts of information and are inundated with huge amounts of information immediately on subjects we know nothing about and exposed to unlimited amounts of people who also don’t really know much but who present themselves as experts and there is no way we can possibly take all this in. Are brains are simply not capable of processing it in a way to stay balanced emotionally. The reactions so many people have to Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, tariffs you name it are completely irrational because there is no way an average person could possible understand such complex issues and prior to the relatively recently you never had to because you would have never heard of what was happening in Ukraine or Gaza so they would never be so invested in these conflicts.

The technological evolution has been moving much faster than the human evolution.

I think it’s an interesting theory that partially explains a lot of what is happening and is much stronger in first world countries which also would support the theory.