Comments on: Within the Magic Circle

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:27:48 +0000

If one doesn’t flex one’s ideological muscles on a regular basis by wrestling with those espousing different views, those muscles atrophy. Both liberals and conservatives tend to group together, hearing the crazies on the other team only if they tune to the wrong cable news channel. Arguing with the television is fun (shooting fish in a barrel is hard by comparison), but has the exercise value of walking to the refrigerator for a snack.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:40:19 +0000

This topic is firmly in Charles Murray’s wheelhouse. What he started in his second (and wildly controversial) book, he explicated far more fully in his most recent book. The bubbles are indeed both (a) shrinking and (b) hardening simultaneously.

Think “freedom isn’t free” is pricey? Wait until we start paying for the insidious and unique form of segregation which progressive thought and practice has built for us.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:08:26 +0000

Bubbles is not the right image. Think hardened silos. There is a deep and permanent separation going on in America, an ever growing segregation and isolation. America itself has failed even more so than the USSR, and its future is bleak. An actual political fragmentation is possible, and even desirable.

By: Handle

Handle — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:07:00 +0000

“… and the bubbles seem to be shrinking”

Oh really? Hmm … count me as skeptical of that claim. Does that seem right to you?