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The Absurdity of Simplistic Dichotomies [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 10:16 am |
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You have to love the synchronicity of this. The day after Positive Liberty was listed, due to my involvement with it, in Richard Lawrence Poe's idiotic article about liberal blogs being bought off by Hillary Clinton, CNN lists Positive Liberty as a "blog from the right." As Jason puts it, down with dualism. The whole point of such dichotomies is to avoid having to think. If you can just put that "liberal" or "conservative" label on someone, you can know whether to dismiss them or not. If you're intellectually lazy, that is. If you're capable of rational thinking, you know that labeling an argument does not defeat the argument and that you actually have to examine the logic of the argument and whether it explains the evidence or not. Read the comments on this post... [ Full article ] |
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