What's weird is that the pomo tizzy appears alongside really quantitative election analysis you could never have done before computers and micro-polling. So it's actually hard-nosed reasoning alongside the relativizing rabbit hole of pomo rubbish. Somehow, that's our status quo.
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This is our current contradiction more broadly: never have we been more able and willing to measure and model everything, often very successfully. At the same time, we're willing to entertain the most fantastical fairy tales...cultivating the very notion of life-by-fairy-tale.
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The ease of modeling is a function of the sophistication of the system. And if a person been raised to suspend reason and doubt for belief and faith, it’s not a far leap to do it where-ever it makes self feel better.
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Once they want to believe, they only need a decent argument to save face when necessary, so, no matter how absurd, they at least have one. They can point to _something_ and save any energy required to actually consider non-tribal possibilities. Also know as: laziness
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