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February 4, 2010
On Dumbth
In recent years we have made something of a fetish
out of nuance. Especially when it came to defending political candidates who could not think clearly or could not make up their minds or who tried to straddle too many competing opinions at once. John Kerry and Barack Obama were widely proclaimed to be geniuses because they engaged in cognitive disfluency and low concept. -- Had Enough Therapy?: Cognitive Fluency
Posted by Vanderleun at February 4, 2010 4:26 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.