Posting on Politics
Politics, ah, politics! If human insanities could physically manifest as lumps of putrefaction, and the dripping slimes collected into a giant festering pit, and the mound of corruption formed itself into a monster and shambled forth to eat brains...
Ordinarily I prefer to discuss politics indirectly, rather than directly. Politics varies from government to government. Better to talk about human universals—cognitive biases that can be nailed down and examined in the laboratory—malfunctions of sanity that appear wherever humans go. Then it’s up to you to apply the knowledge to your own political situation.
This policy also avoids offending people, so I tend to suspect my clever-sounding rationale for following it.
Over the next two weeks, Iowa and New Hampshire will exercise their Constitutional right to appoint the next President of the United States. I hope you will forgive me if I am, briefly, relevant.
I intend to do a series of three posts directly applying to politics. Don’t worry, after that it’s back to the safe refuge of cognitive science.
Rest assured that I don’t plan on endorsing a party, let alone a candidate.
If I say something that you disagree with, remember that my attempts at rationality are not sourced from a divine scripture, and hence are not a package deal. You read plenty of other blogs, I hope, where an author occasionally says something you dislike, from time to time?
Not even Raul Paul?