Dave writes:
< I find myself becoming increasingly petulant and angry, in all sorts of
areas, not just politics, with people who are so absolutely certain that their
interpretation of a complex data set is the ONE AND ONLY TRUTH. I believe, not
know — not even think, but believe that such people are dangerous — to the body
politic and to individuals. It matters not if the TRUTH originates from the
"left" or "right" — "Science" or "God" the conviction of TRUTH leads, almost
inexorably, to violence and/or tyranny. >
Stopping behaviors that are counterproductive is different from promulgating a
prescriptive ideology. The point is to open up space for what might work, and
that which has yet to be falsified. The Trumpism behaviors are not drawn from
a complex data set.
Marcus
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