LOOKING AT DENIAL As long as you believe in human equality, it’s pretty hard to

LOOKING AT DENIAL

As long as you believe in human equality, it’s pretty hard to complain about people who believe in the omniscience and omnipotence of divinities. Denials are rampant on either side of the political spectrum. If you can get a population where everyone’s IQ is over about 106, and you’ll have neither problems of material inequality or pervasive mysticism. But we don’t have a population over 106, we have one distributed either side of 100 — and its declining. Its declining largely because of the denial of inequality, leading to policies that allow the expansion of the lower classes. … Subsiding the breeding of the lower classes at the expense of the middle classes is not a good idea for anyone. And denying these facts is the source of our conflict. Denial is not a monopoly of the left or right. Denial is an ideologically pervasive problem.