h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How's that for a big word.
And now the US election is over both sides need to give up there epistomologic closure.
New York Times Reported Julian Sanchez, a libertarian at the Cato Institute, was the first to use “epistemic closure” to refer to what he sees as conservatives’ tendency to operate in an information bubble. Any news from outside is immediately regarded as suspect.

Conservative media, Mr. Sanchez wrote, referring to outlets like Fox News and National Review and to talk show stars like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck have “become worryingly untethered from reality as the impetus to satisfy the demand for red meat overtakes any motivation to report accurately.”

Soon conservatives — and a few liberals — jumped into the debate. Bruce Bartlett, a veteran of the Reagan and first Bush administrations, wrote that in the past few years, “epistemic closure” has become much worse among “the intelligentsia of the conservative movement.”

Jim Manzi, a contributing editor at National Review, wrote that Mr. Levin’s best seller, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto” “was awful,” and called the section on global warming a case for “willful ignorance,” and “an almost perfect example of epistemic closure.” </(I>

the dictionary defines epistemology:
noun
[mass noun] Philosophy

the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.
so epistemic (or epistemological) closure is deciding that your mind has their final answer and no further information will change your belief or opinion.
After all the final answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.

I'm sure Douglas Adams would have got a smile out of this

A sickly smile, perhaps, but still a smile