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We all confront information daily, and I find it hard to have even the slightest ounce of respect for people who openly choose to ignore it. It is one thing to view the information (facts, really) and say, "I don't believe it because..." It is something completely different to say, in essence, "I am choosing to ignore the information". Ignorance is bliss, but choosing to be ignorant must lead to some state of mind in which one is completely at ease, but at the same time is in constant turmoil. I don't think there is one sane person alive who chooses to ignore impotant information and is completely at peace with themselves about it. They would like us to think they are, because only in acquiring the personification of somebody at ease can they truly convince others (as well as themselves) that they believe in what they claim to believe in. If they were to show any sign of doubt, others would begin to doubt their sincerity (however unwarranted any affirmation of sincerity may be) and they themselves would have to come to grips with the reality that they have chosen to live a lie, and then they must stand and face it.

Let's all dig our graves and lie in them for a while. Hopefully it will stop raining and the holes won't fill up. Then we can climb out and live on knowing we have cheated the system.