tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post3985933228456934851..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: Some one has apparently failed to get Rich Lowry a copy of the catechism.Rick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-76174014787325217602010-05-06T09:21:48.820-05:002010-05-06T09:21:48.820-05:00Anon 9:42: I don't suppose you'd actually...Anon 9:42: I don't suppose you'd actually want to read the scholarship cited?<br /><br />What's that phrase again? "Epistemic closure"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-85532858856044715812010-05-05T09:42:18.164-05:002010-05-05T09:42:18.164-05:00Undoubtedly, the scholarship cited by Anon 6:50 ca...Undoubtedly, the scholarship cited by Anon 6:50 came from psychologists who were as objective and without any ulterior political agenda as the climatologists at East Anglia University.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-66692217942683161082010-05-03T18:50:44.541-05:002010-05-03T18:50:44.541-05:00As I said, there is an extensive scholarly literat...As I said, there is an extensive scholarly literature documenting the cognitive style that tends to accompany conservative political views, and it didn't end with Adorno. See Tetlock, "Cognitive style and political ideology," 45 Journal of Personality & Social Psychology (1983) 118; Jost, et al., "Political conservatism as motivated social cognition," 129(3) Psych. Bulletin (May 2003) 339. I acknowledge the opposing views. You summarily dismiss the views you do not happen to share as "risible." Do you not think that perhaps you are proving my point? Dad29, what do you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-60274618568377620572010-05-02T12:41:46.147-05:002010-05-02T12:41:46.147-05:00If you are in any way politically incorrect, you w...If you are in any way politically incorrect, you will find Madison, Wisconsin to be a very close-minded place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-25167732813512294362010-04-29T18:52:08.942-05:002010-04-29T18:52:08.942-05:00Ambiguity confuses us little folks who are trying ...Ambiguity confuses us little folks who are trying to survive amid the uncertainty of life.jpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-17128013457082644602010-04-29T18:51:34.764-05:002010-04-29T18:51:34.764-05:00Ambiguity confuses us little folks who are trying ...Ambiguity confuses us little folks who are trying to survive amid the uncertainty of life.jpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-61911762592706823072010-04-29T15:42:50.417-05:002010-04-29T15:42:50.417-05:00I am aware of that and it is risible. It was then ...I am aware of that and it is risible. It was then - it is even more so now.Rick Esenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-46762142782550306592010-04-28T09:55:35.403-05:002010-04-28T09:55:35.403-05:00The idea that conservatives are, in general, more ...The idea that conservatives are, in general, more close minded and intolerant of ambiguity than liberals is not risible. There's an extensive scholarly literature on the authoritarian personality and the cognitive traits that tend to accompany it. See, e.g, Adorno, et al., The Authoritarian Personality. This has been subject to a variety of critiques, but the idea is still seriously advanced and debated sixty years after Adorno first proposed it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-89668541274819505912010-04-28T09:45:07.661-05:002010-04-28T09:45:07.661-05:00This is not to say that there is no need for finan...<i>This is not to say that there is no need for financial reform but the framework of a nation of Tiny Tims cheated by the pre-enlightenment Scrooge isn't very helpful.</i><br /><br />Nor is that (mis)characterization of the president's take on the situation, particularly sans any corroborating evidence.<br /><br />And nor is trying to make a debate on the right about the left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com