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Is This Professor's Heterdox Ideas Dange?
I think cynicism about motives actually isn't very helpful as a way to understand american life. Very few people are truly cynical, that is, simply lying about their fundamental intention and purposes and motives. What's become harder is to actually confront difference and say, well, that person is just in a different place from me. The muscles needed for that kind of negotiation have most been atrophying in our time. For me, it's a sign of grave trouble. But i do believe they mean what they say.