What Do You Know?

Well, I would certainly not vouchsafe the truth of any of the beliefs of this IOZ character, but it is interesting how many people look at the world and conclude: the people who do not believe as I believe do not really believe what they believe; the people who do not think as I think do not really think what they think. From this mindset arises a sort of Ptolemaic model of the universe of the human mind, piled high with epicycles, seeking to explain what various interests and counterinterests drive people to so universally misrepresent their true beliefs, which are necessarily my own, of course, because how could anyone believe otherwise? Add to this miasma the fact that we are all, each precious flower among us, deeply inconsistent, that there is no such thing as ideology, that what we flatter as "systems" of thought and belief are constructs of almost pure contingency and exigency, and you end up with white noise, a buzz in the background.