The other day, I was looking at a book. It was by an economist who is extremely loyal to the conservative vision: excessively so. It is Thomas Sowell, and on the back of this book, a compilation of letters, is a blurb by an “editor emeritus” of Forbes magazine that is completely consistent with certain types of conservative expression regarding the alleged “facts.”
The absolute self-assuredness of the “fact-conservatives” is, first of all, astonishing. Or I should say jaw-dropping. Or amazing. This pattern is not rational. It is totally emotional, or else perhaps I should say psychological. They are completely beyond rationality. They are, in their own view of themselves, right automatically.
What we need is not to pillory them, etc. What we should do, rather, is ask why?
A better approach to understanding this volatile cultural situation is that they are frustrated. The best way to understand the situation is that this is a situation of persons who are frustrated. This way we can have sympathy for them instead of always being hostile.
And why are they, in my opinion, “frustrated”? It is because their world is being taken out from under their feet by trans-national capitalism.
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