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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is the Senate Bazarre?
In a democracy you have to be able to get people to agree on the policy, even if their reasons for agreeing on the policy are completely incompatible. So not agreeing to disagree, it's agreeing for disagreeable reasons. But but as you're pointing out, even better is masking the disagreement by just highlighting some numerical value rather than a list of reasons. Why? Ya. I truly think if there were therapists around, they would have a problem with this system of sweeping everything under the rug of numbers and dates and ages and quantities of time. They now, this is superhealthy. So let us never talk about it again.
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