Krugman being Krugman

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

"There's the great line, of course, about how his "lived experience" (see? I told you, he's doing empirical work!) confirms that motivated cognition "is not, in fact, symmetric between liberals and conservatives.

...

That Krugman is too thick to see that one can't infer anything about the quality of partisans' reasoning from the truth or falsity of their beliefs is ... another element of Krugman's proof that ideological reasoning is symmetric across right and left!"

Comments

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Only if you see the hippy element as split. Seeing as the piece refutes the protest that it's not held back to the left...

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

"The. Hippy. Element."

What?!?

[goumindong.livejournal.com]

Jeffe, like many conservatives, believe that there is a group of "hippies" which make up the left and that the organized left is secretly part of that group rather than well what everyone else knows the organized left is.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh. So those were the guys talking quietly in the corner of the Grateful Dead concerts while everyone else was tripping on 'shrooms and pretending the music didn't suck.

I always wondered what those guys were doing.

Got it! Thanks!

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Oooo. I think I see what's going on here. (http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/why-we-deny)

The theory of motivated reasoning builds on a key insight of modern neuroscience: Reasoning is actually suffused with emotion (or what researchers often call "affect"). Not only are the two inseparable, but our positive or negative feelings about people, things, and ideas arise much more rapidly than our conscious thoughts, in a matter of milliseconds—fast enough to detect with an EEG device, but long before we're aware of it. . . . We push threatening information away; we pull friendly information close. We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

We're not driven only by emotions, of course—we also reason, deliberate. But reasoning comes later, works slower—and even then, it doesn't take place in an emotional vacuum. Rather, our quick-fire emotions can set us on a course of thinking that's highly biased, especially on topics we care a great deal about.

(I underlined.)

Your opinion of "hippies" is guiding your thinking on the left.

Using the doll, could you show us where the dirty hippie touched you?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Hahaha.