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July 10, 2005
Should Kos Ban Himself Next?
Dave at Logical Meme has a succinct analysis of the recent purge by Daily Kos of some of the most wacked-out of the wackos. Dave rightly points out that, while it is correct for Kos to ban unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, there isn't a definite line of departure from "rational left" to "irrational left":
The weird thing about all of this is that the Crazy Kos Kidz’s conspiracy theories are simply the end product of the collective psychosis that is the hard Left, and that like Zuniga himself they are simply playing out the natural logic of otherwise untenable theories about the world: when empirical reality and the rationality of Occam’s Razor won’t play nice together, bizarre conspiracy theories (Juden! Bushitler! Rove!) are the only means by which to maintain a theoretical ‘order’ to the cognitive dissonance.
This is just spot-on. The employment of empirical evidence and Occam's Razor are anathema to a majority of the left, and their efforts to avoid the product of sound reasoning leads to situations where supposed feminists excoriate Bush in deference to the Taliban, and to the proliferation of apologists for a man who murdered 300,000 of his fellow citizens.
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