Ignorance of ignorance may be man's deepest and most persistent problem, perhaps even worse than knowledge of what is untrue.

At One Cosmos, Gagdad Bob, a clinical psychologist when he isn’t blogging, writes about the Ford/Kavanaugh mess.

…people who claim to be traumatized by the less-than-traumatic inevitably turn out to be self-centered, narcissistic, weak, hysterical, melodramatic, and of generally low character. They imagine they are being bullied (“Dr. Ford won’t be bullied into testifying!”) when they are the bullies.

…What do you think this is, America? You testify first, then we’ll let you know what you’re being charged with. “But that’s not justice!” That is correct. It is social justice, good and hard.

…That is definitely the operative phrase, because we already know the left’s machinations are designed so that the shame of the accusation will outlive the proceedings (as in the case of Clarence Thomas). Indeed, Democrats are already gearing up to impeach Herr K. once they take control of congress in January.

… If Hayek is correct, then ignorance of ignorance may be man’s deepest and most persistent problem, perhaps even worse than knowledge of what is untrue.

…After all, science for example, in the ultimate sense, is always “knowledge of what is untrue.” It operates via the principle of falsification, such that it eliminates errors without arriving at an unchanging positive truth. In the words of the Aphorist, Being only falsifiable, a scientific thesis is never certain but is merely current. So long as we bear this in mind, then we are respecting the limits of science.

Nevertheless, Each one of a science’s successive orthodoxies appears to be the definitive truth to its disciple, the dim ones, anyway.

I apologize for wasting so much time on the circus, because now I’m out of it. Perhaps that is part of the left’s strategy: to cause us to waste all our time and energy in defense of the obvious.

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