Tag: The Scout Mindset
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Three New Books: Three — How to Keep an Open Mind, edited by Richard Bett
by Kevin Currie-Knight ____ A friend of mine posted a meme about how vegans are cultural elitists because they do not take seriously the fact that many societies are dependent on eating animals. Against my better judgment, I chimed in. I pointed out that it isn’t necessarily cultural elitism to see something another culture does…
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THREE NEW BOOKS: tWO — jULIA GALEF’S “THE SCOUT MINDSET”
By Kevin Currie-Knight ____ Early in her book, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (Portfolio, 2021), Julia Galef comes right out and says: “Motivated reasoning is so fundamental to the way our minds work that it’s almost strange to have a special name for it; perhaps it should just…