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To: LindyBill who wrote (524352)	11/24/2012 1:58:35 PM
From: Neeka	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793931

IMO, they're dinosaurs without the ability to think outside their cushy little boxes. The world is dynamic and ever changing and these fossils are leftovers from the 20th century.

To: LindyBill who wrote (524352)	11/24/2012 3:20:17 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	6 Recommendations Respond to of 793931

IMO, it's their altruism that does them in I've just finished Haight's THE RIGHTEOUS MIND. I was fascinated from the start. Halfway through I thought the author had looked for answers only under his porch light when they were actually scattered in a bramble thicket on the far side of the south forty. I'd previously thought Sowell's work on the conservative/liberal divide the gold standard. Now I think Haight has supplanted and surpassed Sowell, and others, with insights developed from another angle. His observations on "liberals" are exactly as you wrote. They are guided by their moral intuitions to the exclusion of any evidence that contravenes their fine intent. Their blinders make impossible the recognition that they are cheering a reversion to a lower form of social order with a sordid record. Many/most are not stupid, but live in material luxury that allows indulgence of their "fatal conceit". Masochists interested can blow weeks if not months rooting around on his website moralfoundations.org Here's too much stuff on my side of the spectrum righteousmind.com plosone.org