Because debate is all about winning an argument toward a preconceived conclusion, not trying to identify truth.
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Vox, 22 Jun 2023: Joe Rogan wants a “debate” on vaccine science. Don’t give it to him., subtitled “How to have better conversations about contentious scientific subjects.”
There’s something going on with the conservative mindset that isn’t what they say it is.
Salon, Amanda Marcotte, 21 Jun 2023: “Too stupid to know better”: MAGA eats up Trump’s idiot president defense, subtitled “Evangelicals, in particular, feel a flock should follow leaders who are neither smart nor moral”
Note in particular the subtitle.
That there was a golden age.
NY Times, Adam Mastroianni, 20 Jun 2023: Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse
Here’s a draft of another essay trying to summarize my take on science fiction and my provisional conclusions on the topics I’ve been reading about over the past couple decades.
Let’s return to yesterday’s item from OnlySky, which strikes me as a way to expand one of my key themes. In fact, perhaps we can build one of my hierarchies to begin with the most basic conception of what science fiction is, and then step by step expand on that scope. [[ revised 19jun23 ]]
Begin at the most basic.
Only time today for a few quick links, which I may or may not expand upon in future posts.
OnlySky: The methadone of the people, subtitled “As long as the human condition is characterized by suffering, the vulnerable will seek solutions”
Heather Cox Richardson explains how the Republican’s 2024 budget plan is built upon false premises, and an ignorance of history.
Examples today of:
Is there a common theme here?
Today I had an appointment at CMPC for the procedure I was scheduled to have done a week ago, but which was derailed by some emergency in the catheter lab, as I wrote about here.
This marked the second anniversary of my heart transplant. I wrote about having the same procedure done a year ago, on the first anniversary, but see now I got some details confused.
Why are small town values exalted by politicians? Most Americans are in big cities, where the issues of the 21st century are taking place.
