The Allure of Outrage

Clay Shirky has a very good and honest post on the narcotic allure of moral posturing. I think this is a bigger problem that many people realize.
What I find so frustrating about such much political discourse is that people don’t want to be proven right—they want to be proven better.
(HT: Felix)

Posted by on April 19th, 2009 at 7:19 pm


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