While this sort of thing happens in political fields like "global warming", it also happens in things like the fine arts. What sophisticate would want to admit that all he sees in a Jackson Pollock painting is a bunch of splatters of paint whose varied density offers some degree of visual interest, but no real artistic vision?
One of the key aspects of Liberal Mind Fog is that its sufferers believe it desirable to see things that not everyone else can see; the clarity and brilliance of the vision is far more important than its relation to reality.
Very true. Very true and very well articulated.
It is a theme of my novel “A Sense of Duty,” derived from my experiences as a cop in Philadelphia.
The police ( and working class males) are considered the benighted, while the elites and the literary class are the annointed.