More on Certainty; or is it Moron Certainty?

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More on Certainty; or is it Moron Certainty?
      

The writer Michael Crichton is quoted in an interview in Slate on the state of the media:

"The truth is, we live in an age of astonishing conformity. I grew up in the 1950s, supposedly the heyday of conformity, but there was much more freedom of opinion back then. And as a result, you knew that your neighbors might hold different views from you on politics or religion. Today, the notion that men of good will can disagree has disappeared. Can you imagine! Today, if I disagree with you, you conclude there is something wrong with me. This is a childish, parochial view. And of course stupefyingly intolerant...."

         

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