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The Ghost of a Flea1/20/2018 10:26:01 am PST

re: #480 Citizen K

It’s the Newt Gingrich school of ‘Intellectualism’: if you feel it hard enough and convince yourself hard enough, it’s just as valid or even moreso than actual verifiable fact.

Accurate.

I’ve severed at least one relationship in the last year because that person insisted that he was “smart” but refused to do any reading or research. I’d give them specific things to look at, cite sources, make diagrams, but he could simply dismiss anything…even me knowing more about the specifics of the anecdotes and factoids he referenced than he did. That he felt things made them valid; that I felt things didn’t make them valid.

And this wasn’t even in a political context.