--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberation@> > wrote: > > > > I found this article. kind of entertaining to read. > > > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/09/optimism-science-study-shows-optimists-block-out-information.html > > Fascinating. Thanks for the find, and for posting > it here. It explains a great deal about True > Believerism and cult apologetics, and well, about > pretty much everything. > > I just loved the phrase, "frontal lobes going on > strike in the face of unwelcome information." > That just nails it. Did you notice, for example, > that no one else followed up on your post but me? > Says a lot, doesn't it. :-)
Have you noticed that Barry almost never follows up on posts that criticize him? And it's not just that his frontal lobes go on strike in the face of the unwelcome information. He actively avoids even reading it. Not only that, notice that he didn't comment on this example of unrealistic optimism given in the first paragraph of the article, a person he has stoutly supported while bashing the person's critics: "The politician who keeps compromising even though his opponents roll him every time. It's called unrealistic optimism. (President Obama, whose base sometimes cringes at his readiness to compromise with opponents, is on record as an 'eternal optimist.')"
