The crisis of truth is what is tearing america apart. It probably has its origins in the post war period and the inability to come to terms with sympathy for the Soviet Union. Lionel Trilling tried to deal with in his so-called "failed" novel, "The Middle of the Journey," but he was ignored.
Too many highly intelligent people devote their careers to defending ideas (and creating intelligently underpinnings for them) that they themselves would never have thought made sense if they were not already current.
If you want to feel intelligent and moral you go along with whatever the papers and networks are saying are right and true, not what actually is. "Morality," is prisoner of the great party machines and used as a cudgel.
In all this, the highly intelligent and educated have created a world where they and their intelligent forebears have never erred. All bad seeped in from the other side. They instead create enormous edifices of words and charts, "proving" their infallibility.
Until those of great minds and abilities learn to admit they made mistakes and not every idea they push is correct, the United states will continue to be hover over this abyss.
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