by Christyl Rivers

Created on: August 13, 2010   Last Updated: August 14, 2010

People are infinitely delusional.  Part of our biology, that pesky thing that created all life in the Universe, somehow selected us as masters of both domain and delusion.   We humans are the best evolved to affect every thing around us, everywhere we go.  Biology also provided that our recently evolved larger brains would be capable of rationalization.  To rationalize anything in ones self-interest is completely observable behavior from the three year old who realizes giving up a toy demands a shrieking tantrum, to the politician who knows not to say on video, that which she/he does, or says, in private.

You can shout “Global Warming is a fact” until you are blue in the face, but even when all of us are red in the face from sun burn under an ozone perforated sky, there will still be those who insist that Global Warming is not within our influence.  It does happen, they might say, but it’s not due to “ just us burnin' stuff up, 7 billion little 'ole’ us.”

There are almost seven billion of us.  Name any other non insect creature who has taken up so much resources and real estate upon the firmament.  It won’t matter that it is obvious that seven billion people are a heavier burden on earth than a mere one million leopards.  In US and UK math, just ONE billion equals 1000 Million, so the imbalance is unfathomable to most.  Leopards are astonishingly skilled, graceful, and gorgeous, so they must die.

Deniers will come up with “reasons” based on our aforementioned infinite capacity to make up reasons, rationalization, why this should be as it is. There are religious reasons, political reasons, economic reasons, even people who believe that wearing a leopard offers a more beautiful “reason” to appreciate them due to how rare they are!

We easily bind ourselves with twisted logic. There are holocaust deniers, moon landing deniers, evolution deniers. Even people who think "Ancient astronaut nukes in volcanoes make sense, or "Colbert is too far right of Beck."

When it was just a man and woman and a snake, if you believe that sort of thing at least as metaphor, someone found a way to say: “Nope not us, it was that dang snake, or Satan, or, too many confusing rules,” or  “the fruit deserved it for looking so desirable.”  This last one is still in frequent use today in the form of, let’s eat  mono-cultured

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