24 December 2009

Uncommon Commentary #93: Keep It Simple and Stupid

People have a penchant for oversimplifying everything, with undesirable consequences.  Seemingly everyone thinks that the only choices we have are between treason and the love-it-or-leave-it attitude, between "tyranny" and what we call democracy, between Fundamentalism and/or fanaticism and skepticism toward religion, between the Islamic world and the secular West, between the Republican and Democratic parties, between bureaucratized medical care and the excessive costs of the present system, and so on.