Frosty Candy Mountain

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• 46° 15' 28.62" N 119° 20' 42.54" W

Intellectuals

Thomas Sowell nails it:

How have intellectuals managed to be so wrong, so often? By thinking that because they are knowledgeable-- or even expert-- within some narrow band out of the vast spectrum of human concerns, that makes them wise guides to the masses and to the rulers of the nation.

Rationalistic Politics: A Dangerous Pipe Dream

Miklos Hollender's comment on a Dr. Helen article is the quote of the day:

Jim M,

You need a coherent rational philosophy.

No. That’s the whole point: currently we have so little scientific knowledge about the human mind and human society that any kind of rationalistic politics is a dangerous pipe dream, because we pretend to know stuff we do not know. This is why we have to rely on common sense, tradition etc. - generally, pattern recognition, as opposed to theoretization.

What he said.