{"id":59200,"date":"2021-09-03T07:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59200"},"modified":"2021-09-03T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:13:45","slug":"the-fantasy-of-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59200","title":{"rendered":"The Fantasy of Electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fantasy of Electrification<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Recently, I have come across literally hundreds of people defending EVs, their batteries, and electricity generation of all flavors. Of course, this is all fine and dandy, as I am used to the typical arguments in favor of technology of all stripes and often simply post my article about\u00a0Problems, Predicaments, and Technology<\/b><\/a>, highlighting the connection between the three.<\/p>\n

But what concerns me most is that despite all the information available here on my blog and in so many other credible sources of science claiming the exact same things, even intelligent people are ignoring this science in favor of their own beliefs. Folks,\u00a0BELIEFS DO NOT ECLIPSE FACTS<\/i><\/b>, it is actually the other way around. When the facts do not agree with your beliefs, your beliefs are rendered entirely irrelevant. You can still choose to believe them, but those are called “false beliefs” and they ONLY exist in your mind; not in reality. Examine this commonly mentioned statement; “You made me laugh!” Did this occur in reality? No, of course not. You didn’t “make” me laugh, I\u00a0CHOSE<\/i><\/b>\u00a0to laugh.\u00a0You lack agency<\/a>\u00a0to “make” me do ANYTHING. I must\u00a0CHOOSE\u00a0<\/i>to laugh or to take any other action. I can choose to take no action as well. So, when people choose beliefs over facts when the two of them disagree, they are choosing\u00a0denial; cognitive dissonance, over reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a very important psychological effect to comprehend so that one can see if he or she is allowing denial to overcome his or her ability to learn new facts. A mind is much like a parachute, it only works when it is open.<\/p>\n

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The Fantasy of Electrification Recently, I have come across literally hundreds of people defending EVs, their batteries, and electricity generation of all flavors. Of course, this is all fine and dandy, as I am used to the typical arguments in favor of technology of all stripes and often simply post my article about\u00a0Problems, Predicaments, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,27351,1330,17972,31189,1648,1406,31180,786],"class_list":["post-59200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-beliefs","tag-clean-energy-2","tag-denial","tag-electrification","tag-erik-michaels","tag-facts","tag-green-energy","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59201,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59200\/revisions\/59201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}