One Would Think
[posted by Callimachus]
That a post bewailing "simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation" would be composed of more than ... well, simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation. As well as an explanation of reality based on a cartoon character. As well as lines like: "There's no doubt in my mind that such a current is more advanced in conservative circles (global warming, the war on terror, tax cuts, welfare, abortion, gay rights, etc), ...." As though "simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation" doesn't exactly describe the positions of many on the author's own team on those issues. Though he allows some of the same tendencies among his own, these seem utterly to escape him.
One would think.
ADDENDUM: Well at least we can now give Darwin's theory a motto: "What conservatives don't believe and liberals don't understand." Seriously, in a situation of such widespread ignorance and uncertainty of the concept, I'm almost inclined to tilt my sympathies toward the skeptics. And as long as we're being hypersimplistic and partisan about it, I blame the failed public school system and the teachers unions and their enablers in the Democratic Party for allowing such an incompetent and expensive failure to continue to pass for science education.
That a post bewailing "simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation" would be composed of more than ... well, simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation. As well as an explanation of reality based on a cartoon character. As well as lines like: "There's no doubt in my mind that such a current is more advanced in conservative circles (global warming, the war on terror, tax cuts, welfare, abortion, gay rights, etc), ...." As though "simplistic narratives and a very narrow, linear notion of causation" doesn't exactly describe the positions of many on the author's own team on those issues. Though he allows some of the same tendencies among his own, these seem utterly to escape him.
One would think.
ADDENDUM: Well at least we can now give Darwin's theory a motto: "What conservatives don't believe and liberals don't understand." Seriously, in a situation of such widespread ignorance and uncertainty of the concept, I'm almost inclined to tilt my sympathies toward the skeptics. And as long as we're being hypersimplistic and partisan about it, I blame the failed public school system and the teachers unions and their enablers in the Democratic Party for allowing such an incompetent and expensive failure to continue to pass for science education.
