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Originally posted by sgtclub
I think it's because, like other polarizing issues (abortion, the environment, etc.), the issue become quasi religious in nature and must be pursued with like vigor.
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Vigor's the wrong word. "Ignorance" is better. Of all the things that infuriate me most about this Neocon 70s Democrat we've elected, its his co-opting Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink." I hate academic overthinking like I hate eggplant and cheap tequila, but The Age of Certainty we've come to, characterized by the "Vigor" you cite, is an age of idiocy. In so many ways we're striding ahead, and then you read this shit and recall, "Oh, yeh. A lot of us are still devolving, and plumbing new depths toward the neanderthal."
