<story><title>Too Clever by Half (2018)</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GVIrish</author><text>This was posted here 9 months ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17079369&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17079369&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Too Clever by Half (2018)</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cr0sh</author><text>Highly interesting writing. I found myself both agreeing and disagreeing with points - but mostly agreeing.&lt;p&gt;At the same time, some of it &amp;quot;plucked at my liberal nose&amp;quot;, which bothered me, but further reading seemed to indicate that the author wasn&amp;#x27;t doing it to be &amp;quot;on a side&amp;quot; - in fact, I could see him &amp;quot;plucking the conservative nose&amp;quot; as well!&lt;p&gt;...and indeed, I believe that is intentional; his point being (I think) to get the reader to break out of the us-vs-them dynamic, try to see all points of view, especially those you don&amp;#x27;t agree with, and think more for yourself instead of succumbing to the systems in place that attempt to tell you what to think and how - and are oh-so-seductive as they do so.&lt;p&gt;I like to think, as we probably all do, that &amp;quot;I am better than that - I think for myself!&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;But do I?&lt;p&gt;This kind of writing makes me pause and question that; I find it a good...if a bit unsettling...thing.</text></comment>