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To: William Tell 2
Leftists in all (or nearly all) fields are masters of the "Emperor's New Clothes" hoax. Basically, they convince people that an inability to see the truth of what they are saying is a sign of foolishness. The people, wanting to appear wise, thus take the easy (apparent) opportunity to do so.

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.

51 posted on 05/31/2008 10:13:34 AM PDT by supercat
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To: supercat

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.


52 posted on 05/31/2008 12:12:45 PM PDT by William Tell 2
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