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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Hell I'd like to see a lot more peoples thoughts and why they feel that way instead of needed to cut and paste a link from a website.
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I agree with this. Something that’s been on my mind lately is Bill Bennet’s book, “The Death of Outrage”. Here’s chapters 12-56 with highlights on what I think is the absolute gospel:
Just kidding.
That book has actually been on my mind because of some of the long cut –n- pastries I read in politics. It’s nice to have reams of facts and articles a person can link to that absolutely supports their version of the truth, but nobody is going to read it except for maybe one or two rock hard ideologues. There seems to be an overabundance of outrage within those types of posts and I’m not sure that’s a particularly useful emotion. I think it appeals to a low denominator. The facts are great, but when the entire presentation reads like an unhinged posit, it loses all its strength.
And I’m sure I’m guilty of outrage as much as anybody. But that’s something that is best left checked at the door here.