Walt Kelly's Pogo famously said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." This is, of course, true. But, in my opinion, the REAL enemy is, more precisely, "some of us." And the word for those "some of us" are the ideologues. (I don't like the word "ideologue" but, since there isn't a single other word given in the thesaurus for ideologue, ideologue is the word we're stuck with.) Who or what are ideologues? They are, the best I can explain, people who are intentionally blind, intentionally deaf and intentionally stupid. And, what makes them this way? The answer is: An etched in stone "group truth." They are completely caught up in this "group truth" (think religion) and they hold on to it like the dickens. They'll never budge. They are the Taliban in the environmental struggle facing the earth. In America, one of the MOST idiotic "name calling" words they throw at environmentalists is: "you're materialists." This is because they're, like the Taliban, caught up in supernaturalism. This, along with their own inherent GREATNESS (country, species and/or religion) and rote thinking, are what ideologues are all about.
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