1. Acceptance: Okay, fine. Whatever. They win. It's inevitable, really. A complicated or qualified truth is never as arousing as a good hate-charged lie. It's not that you can't make people be intelligent; it's that you can't make people care about things they don't care about. And half the country consists of people who don't care about the truth.
Maybe it's rooted in the universal denial of death: we all come equipped with a mechanism to ignore the unpleasantly true and...
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