the Janus complex

Bolt observes the paradoxical thinking within a left-wing ideologue:

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton complains:

The Right has jettisoned science in favour of deeper beliefs.

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton preaches:

So I think where we’re going is to begin to see a Gaian earth in its ecological, cybernetic way, infused with some notion of mind or soul or chi, which will transform our attitudes to it away from an instrumentalist one, towards an attitude of greater reverence.

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton complains:

In Australia and the US, climate change is the most important arena for the long-running culture war of the neo-conservatives. In pursuit of their goals they have tapped into primitive fears.

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton preaches:

Personally I cannot see any alternative to ramping up the fear factor.

Question: is Hamilton a fool or a hypocrite?

The truth of the matter is that when you believe that you alone are the bearer of absolute truth, you can never be wrong. That belief enables the holder to bear inconsistency, paradoxical thinking and illogical reasoning with equanimity, i.e. to be two-faced.