“...and how unusual it is”
Unusual? Perhaps but only of the moment. Taken into the context over thousands and thousands of years of hot times, cold times etc. it is not unusual at all.
Was thinking just yesterday of the incongruousness of Liberal/Progressive thought. As a group they either accept things at face value with little or no depth of investigation making assumptions and conclusions with mindlessly little supporting information OR....
They dig so ridiculously deep into a subject that they overthink it to a point of losing all meaningful significance ie. academia. They torture reasoned facts until they at least partially fit into their preconceived notions or agenda and then base their further assertions based on those absurdly contorted “facts”.
There is no “sweet spot” for Liberal/Progressive thinkers. The Scientific Method has been completely replaced by a results driven mentality. One of the primary reasons why many L/P ideas work in theory but fail miserably in actual practice.