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Martin Peretz and the liberals: feeling vs. thinking — 4 Comments

  1. I’ve long viewed the emphasis on feelings as an excuse not to think. It’s an odd fact that Americans almost unanimously (Alzheimer patients and children under six excepted) will say, “I feel that Bush is the better man for president” or “I feel that we should pull out of Iraq.”

    This permits the speaker to back track should his or her views cause trouble. After all, it was only a feeling of mine, not a full blown actual, like, thought, you know. How could you hold me responsible for a mere feeling.

    Lots and lots of us have this habit. Not just leftists, unfortunately.

    We all just need to repeat to ourselves, “I feel with my fingertips; I think with my brain.”

    I think rightists are feared and disliked because they try to hold people to account for the denotation of their words.

    Good blog.

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