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Tuesday, May 18, 2010


Jonah Goldberg may be a neo-con hack (he's got a point in this article) but it's the beginning to this one that got my attention.
We are taught to believe that ideology is the enemy of free thought. But that's not right. Ideology is a mere checklist of principles and priorities. The real enemy of clear thinking is the script. We think the world is supposed to go by a familiar plot. And when the facts conflict with the script, we edit the facts.
Man, how true. People generally don't want to tell you how what they believe is a perfect example to how what's going on is right or wrong, but rather how what's going wrong is a perfect example of what they believe (and generally, it's because they're right and everyone else is wrong). Such is the case with the so-called "dueling rallies" to save save NASA. Focus, people.



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