{"id":19053,"date":"2022-02-22T03:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19053"},"modified":"2022-02-22T03:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:06:04","slug":"aint-no-cure-for-the-manichean-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/02\/22\/aint-no-cure-for-the-manichean-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t No Cure For The Manichean View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Good governance requires sober consideration of the facts and judicial application of a conservative governing philosophy. Even in private life, sober consideration of facts and a judicial application of one\u2019s own beliefs, is a sane and rational way of living one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exasperated by social media, far too often people not only take a knee-jerk response, but become so opposed to any dissent that they will accept more extreme positions they wouldn\u2019t have ever considered before. It is a stupid form of tribalism that traps people into a starkly manichean worldview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2895\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Good_Evil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Good_Evil.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Good_Evil-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your humble author had decided to ignore any Corona-chan related \u201chot takes\u201d back in 2020. However, this does not mean idiocy brought up by, but not directly about Covid, ought to be ignored, but rather it ought to be noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Those who are strongly anti-mandate often become at least somewhat anti-vax. Similarly, many who appropriately argue Joe Rogan should not canceled end up arguing his speech hurts nobody. Defenses of freedom often morph into arguments that an exercise of the freedom has no cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HYNo2PTZMO\">https:\/\/t.co\/HYNo2PTZMO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492565100313468936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You\u2019ll see this over and over every time someone defends a cherished freedom. It\u2019s too apparently too uncomfortable to talk about trade-offs these days, so you\u2019ll start to see increasingly absurd attempts to minimize and deny the damage caused by said cherished freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492565671061778434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Any criticism of someone exercising the cherished freedom in a harmful way is ritualistically denounced as fascism, even if the criticism acknowledges the freedom and the lawfulness of its exercise. We hear: \u201cBut people use the same arguments to shut the freedom down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492566712121626630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And thus does every argument become even more stupidly polarized, because you\u2019re not allowed to even *criticize* Rogan or any other \u201cin\u201d group, *even if you\u2019re right*, because (we are told) it gives aid and comfort to those seeking to cancel him entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492567324573847555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The people demanding absolute fealty (either you are against Neil Young\u2019s protest against Rogan or you are a Bad Person) think they are fighting the Good Fight for Speech, Baseball, Hot Dogs, and the American Way. In reality they contribute to the tribalism they claim to condemn.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492569125951983617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ironically, once this phenomenon is understood, it can become its own argument against vaccine mandates. Those mandates cause the less intellectually honest among mandate opponents to redouble arguments against vaccination itself, possibly persuading many not to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492572539859587072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I should clarify that \u201cat least somewhat anti-vax\u201d in this context often does not mean \u201cresolutely opposed to taking vaccines\u201d but rather giving a chin-scratching \u201chmm\u201d to the dark mutterings of the cranks about unknown side effects and the like. Many of these people are vaxxed.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patterico (@Patterico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patterico\/status\/1492581368592691201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The refusal to recognize any downside to a position, ironically, helps push people to the other manichean camp by alienating some people who\u2019d otherwise agree with you on one point or another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus we get to the point of not arguing which side is really right, but which side is wrong and should be opposed no matter what.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ain't No Cure For The Manichean View\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Good governance requires sober consideration of the facts and judicial application of a conservative governing philosophy.  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