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Hard-Won Ignorance

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If the Democrats held a parade sponsored by Lockheed Martin like this, conservatives’ heads would explode from their resulting conspiracy theories about the military-industrial complex.

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I usually agree that saying cool characters should actually be disliked because that was the intention is dumb. But Patrick Bateman in particular is a neurotic loser and I wouldn’t want to trade places with him.

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That’s called trait conscientiousness and explains maybe 10% of the variance in job performance. Also, there are no substantial gender differences.

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Any decently read classicist today can offer that. When talking about e.g. Marx, people understand he doesn’t have much interesting to say about economics because the field was basically invented after him. But the founding fathers a century earlier were enlightened geniuses?

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Women consistently voted to the right of men in almost every Western country until the 1970s. Female suffrage effectively locked the left out of office in some countries.

Women consistently voted to the right of men in almost every Western country until the 1970s. Female suffrage effectively locked the left out of office in some countries.
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Nobody recalls that much of what they learned at college anyway, and a minority of what they recall is useful. A problem could be that even faker degrees dilute the signal of higher education. But that, too, might be good in the long run if it deters education over-investment.

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Trump and Netanyahu are leaders of democracies, so succession is not an issue and Iran has the Assembly of Experts for electing a new Supreme Leader. China is problematic because Xi has been ignoring succession and term limit rules. Russia is really the only interesting case here

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They didn’t even need the car because they could teleport to work and doves would fly to the grocery store to replenish empty fridges!