It is, after all, extraordinarily difficult to explain this immense country and its millions of citizens. We are frustrated by anecdotes because they seem arbitrary and unrepresentative, frustrated by statistics because something urgent and human always escapes them, frustrated by the past because it is not reliably predictive, frustrated by the future because it remains stubbornly unknowable.
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If a member of a civic body expressed frustration that a colleague refused to read the Bible, the Quran, The Wealth of Nations, The Communist Manifesto, Atlas Shrugged, or Dianetics, and couldn’t understand an accusation until they did, most observers would see the problem. Drawing on outside concepts is fine. But if you can’t explain your position unless everyone reads your source material, then the fault lies with you. No one in a public meeting should have to read the books you consider important, much less accept that the ideas in those books are sacrosanct
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