Andrew Wyld
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

As W B Yeats said:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

I think there’s a similar problem in liberal media, too: rightly, liberals do not want to be paternalistic, but as a consequence, I think they try to pitch a balanced message and let people decide (and often overcomplicate the point with nuance), meaning that without understanding the deep causes of things, people hear one extreme message and one balanced one and “balance” between them, leading to a situation like Raymond Smullyan’s compromise between the kid who wants the whole cake and the one who wants to share it: the kid who wants it all gets three quarters.

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