Comments on: Good news/bad news http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/14/good-newsbad-news/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:47:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ben Tremblay http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/14/good-newsbad-news/#comment-110923 Ben Tremblay Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:15:14 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/14/good-newsbad-news/#comment-110923 *Shhhhhhhhhhhh!* Don't want to shock the poor dears; they find reality too hard to relate to as is. The anti-realists have had them entralled for a while, you know? (J/K?! Nope ... I just saw John Dean on TV; Dean has discovered 40-50 years of research showing that conservatives' "mean streak" leads to authoritarianism. Civilization, like democracy, is not an entity or artifact ... it's a process.) *Shhhhhhhhhhhh!* Don’t want to shock the poor dears; they find reality too hard to relate to as is. The anti-realists have had them entralled for a while, you know?

(J/K?! Nope … I just saw John Dean on TV; Dean has discovered 40-50 years of research showing that conservatives’ “mean streak” leads to authoritarianism. Civilization, like democracy, is not an entity or artifact … it’s a process.)

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