A Dystopia of the Mind

Hundreds have died in Florida.

Oz continues to poll behind Fetterman.

Denmark believes “deliberate actions” caused big leaks in two natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, and seismologists said powerful explosions preceded the leaks.
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The pursuit of accurate knowledge and the pursuit of ideological satisfaction are inherently conflicting goals, whether in American universities today or in universities in other times and places.--Sowell

                A Dystopia of the Mind

This is a good little summary from Baker on the current dangerous state of affairs in the U.S.:

"If I had to pick the most worrying characteristic of our current dystopia, I would choose the unsettling disconnect between the seriousness of the challenges we face and the public discourse that is supposed to be addressing them.

We are used to politicians bending facts and logic to fit their aims, but the problem goes well beyond political rhetoric. Our larger discourse is dominated by cultural authorities who want us to believe things that the human mind rebels against—that there is no such thing as biological sex, that the way to fight past discrimination is with present discrimination, that not punishing crime is the way to prevent crime, that words can mean whatever they tell us they mean."

These are short examples of a remarkably long list that also includes Iran policy, energy policy, inflation, and immigration. And, importantly, loss of common sense, the inability of the political culture to recoil from illogic and foolishness. 

The wealth of the country has always allowed a certain forgiveness of nonsense. But our self-imposed vulnerabilities, like the mad self-punishing flagellation of the engine of the West's growth over the last two hundred years and the apparent embarrassment over the basic principles that allowed that growth to occur, have foundation-shaking implications for the U.S. and those who depend upon it.