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How rooted, really, are our

DF — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:06:15 +0000

How rooted, really, are our policies in the world we inhabit, as opposed to the world we imagine?

And right here American politics, and perhaps even American culture, stand reconsidered on the prongs of the is-ought distinction. Certainly some of our policies are based on religious superstition, but still others are based on things we insist on believing - despite the evidence - for other reasons entirely. Maybe it's the belief that contractionary fiscal policy is expansionary. Maybe it's the belief that the War on Drugs has some kind of positive outcome. Maybe it's the belief that an increasingly draconian security state makes us safer. How deep does the rabbit hole go? Moreover, what would our policies look like if they were actually scaled against the evidence?

I had no idea you were into

Richard Day — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:21:48 +0000

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I had no idea you were into Scientology.

I am afraid this puts all of your prior posts in a new light or at least light saber!

To be fair to Kilgore, I

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:58:27 +0000

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To be fair to Kilgore, I think his myth-feeding remark was the minor point. His major point was that focusing on Santorum's belief in Satan per se misses the far more sinister element of his worldview--that those who disagree with Santorum's dogmatic ideas are Satan's pawns. That belief is not just silly, like the Destor Star Wars cult. It's scary as hell (figuratively speaking).