On 5/12/2016 7:42 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
... Treacherous ivory-tower
no-goodniks, dangerously prone to basing their ideas on nonsense lies
like reality and evidence.
...
I recently updated a blog post that I started in an effort to get my
head around modern-day Conservatism. Among what my research turned up
was this gem:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he
defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible
reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off.
"That's not the way the world really works anymore,"
<http://david.boxall.id.au/201611/#alternativerealities>
Increasingly, it seems our government is divorced from empirical
reality. Isn't that characteristic of psychosis?
--
David Boxall | ignorance more frequently
| begets confidence than does
http://david.boxall.id.au | knowledge
| --Charles Darwin (introduction
| to 'The Descent of Man' 1871)
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