What’s noteworthy about “Belief Systems?”

Jack R. Noel
November 28, 2023

Foreword: I ask for your indulgence partly because of the way this platform organizes its reward system. That is, I ask that you read all the way through and then offer a clap and hopefully a responsive comment.

It has always been common knowledge that when only one kind of message is allowed (or given the most of communications), people become convinced that that sole belief “must be true.” This is best viewed through the accurate lens of comparisons.

As when only Muslim or Christian or Judaic messages get through or get through most often with only a “minority” tolerated for the sake of “equality.” So too with the now dominant belief that “climate change” represents a “crisis” that all must heed and oppose.

Or as when an internet “platform” owner restricts “communications” between users to only “nonviolent content.” The evidence: this is always couched in terms of “community standards” where only the standards of the owner are allowed to show forth. There are no exceptions to this. Ownership, not “rationality” determines what we are allowed to write or post or publish on “our” pages and accounts.

Every nation worth the name maintains some level of military capability. And every military body *requires* extraordinary consumption of fossil fuels. Nuclear submarines don’t make up more than a tiny fraction of the total energy requirement of every military body. Look it up: find out…