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To: Chickensoup

City Journal is very good. I think a lot of people on FR don’t understand that you don’t read something just to be reinforced in your own thought, but to have different views of that thought.

That is, I wouldn’t read a liberal rag, because it would be preposterous in its fundamental premises. But I’d read a less than “perfect” (whatever that is) conservative one because we’d be starting more or less from the same point and going more or less to the same point...but we might reach different conclusions and choose different landing points, or we might choose the same point but get there by different means. Either way, it makes you think, articulate and defend your own views and that can only be good.

I didn’t think the left ever does this, mostly because deep down inside they know they’re wrong...


19 posted on 01/31/2019 5:08:07 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

I absolutely agree with you.

I try to read things that will challenge me.

Enjoying listening to Jordan Peterson now.


21 posted on 01/31/2019 5:13:31 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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