10. And his terms are dumb! He sneers, in passing, at the attempted scientific study of near-death experiences. Why?
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11. Near-death experiences are commonplace. They touch on the central questions of our existence. Why *wouldn't* you study them?
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12. Or to take a non-religious example: Americans like to experiment with alternative medicine and fad diets. A lot. Is this "irrational"?
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13. Only if you assume medical science has advanced so far that when it tells you it doesn't have the answers, none exist.
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14. That assumption is very often incorrect:https://longreads.com/2016/09/14/stat/ …
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15. I could go on, but this is tedious. Bottom line: Anderson's definition of "rationality" is blinkered and irrational.
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16. And the phenom he's describing is much better described as a collapse of trust in *institutions*, political + religious + communal ...
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17. ... than some sort of mass rejection of reason. Americans reject *authority*, not reason.
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18. And any attempted reconstitution of civic order that begins by shouting "you're crazy" at people who aren't will make the problem worse.
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19. In conclusion, the devil is real. Thanks for listening.
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