[Bo]
"Somewhere in between" sounds like trying to reconcile SOM's
dichotomies. However pitting the establishment against people isn't
so pronounced over here, it seems more like the mentioned plebeian
"howling with the wolves" phenomenon.
[Arlo]
David Frum wrote an Op piece on CNN.com today
(http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/06/frum.global.warming/index.html)
and in it he makes, IMO, some very key points.
"It used to be said that we were all entitled to our own opinions,
but not entitled to our own facts. No more. In modern America, we
choose our facts to fit our opinions."
"Maybe customers [of media channles like FOX, MSNBC, Limbaugh and The
Daily Show] always wanted to have their pre-existing opinions confirmed."
And most importantly...
"The global warming controversy has been pervaded from the start by
the human instinct to divide the world into "us" and "them" -- and
then believe only the news we hear from "us.""
I submit that this is true for both "sides", indeed Frum sums up what
I think is the most pernicious entanglement strangling "dialogue" in
this country.
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