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YES! "@paulg: People prefer simple explanations, and explanations with good guys and bad guys. To compensate, be more skeptical of those."

@paulg everything is split into opposing points of view (particularly by the media). Always worth thinking of a third way.

@paulg well said. :)

@paulg The other corollary is that simple explanations that can be put in terms of good and bad guys can be unreasonably effective.

@paulg @pmarca by people you mean "the media"

@paulg @pmarca Isn't this a simple explanation of simple explanations? there's a whole lot of neuroscience behind this