The strength of your conviction tells you nothing about whether you're right.
It tells you about your appetite.
A Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published a book about the way crowds lose their minds. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) catalogued tulip speculation, alchemy, the South Sea Bubble, witch hunts, and the slow-burn lunacy of people who grow so attached to an idea that they
@Daojoan "Read the strongest version of the thing you reject - the book your smarter opponents cite, not the dumbest tweet you can find from the other side."
This is very hard sometimes!! I really try hard to listen to opposing voices in order to understand their positions (and mine) better. But sometimes I honestly feel as though there simply ISN'T someone writing with clarity of thought and careful evidence on the other side.
.... I guess that's when I despair at my understanding.
@Cass_m @pkiff If you all are on the left, then at least on economic issues Reason magazine, the Cato Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute are your best bet for intelligent and thoughtful pro-market perspectives.
I can't think of anything like that for social conservatism, though. Their way of thinking is completely alien to me.
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