Aaaarrgh!

Noooo, yet more Adam Smith blogging! Is this and this not enough?

Clearly, the answer is no.

What demeans civil discourse, however, is the routine assumptions of
bad faith one witnesses on both sides of the political divide  –
assumptions that often seem to be cast in concrete in the blogosphere.
Worse than this, mind you, is the sense one gets that good faith or
simple honest disagreement is actually impossible. Thus one sees
priggish folk spluttering "I’d thought Joe X was that all-but extinct
bird: the honest conservative/liberal. More fool me. He’s just another
hack…"

Tsk. I fear this Mr. Massie hasn’t quite understood this blogging thing yet. It’s a binary world, there really are only 10 groups in the blogosphere. There’s that small group which is entirely and in all details correct and then there’s everyone else who is incorrect.

Isn’t it obvious?

rs