What Kuhn called incommensurability.
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:56:03 -0600
From: A friend in MN
To: Me
Subject: RE: election reaction
58.67 million people see things differently because they operate in a different reality that is defined by the media outlets that they choose to watch/read/listen to. All of the decisions we make in life stem from the assumptions that we make prior to analyzing the decision
at hand. Different assumptions lead to different decisions that seem totally reasonable to both sides. Bush voters take their assumptions from right-wing radio, Fox News, drudgereport.com, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, et al. We social liberals take our assumptions from the New
York Times and NPR. It is no wonder that we arrive at different conclusions. Until both sides start listening to a more balanced equation of opinions and media outlets (and I doubt that will ever happen - if anything it will just get worse) the divide will only deepen. Attached is an article that pretty much sums up the reality that Bush voters live in.
Four More Years
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 3, 2004
-----Original Message-----
From: Me
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:46 PM
To: A couple friends
Subject: election reaction
that is the central point: how do 58.67 million people see things so
differently that they voted for 4 more years? fully 3.5 million more
than voted for kerry, according to the latest count.
that margin coincides scarily with something that hadn't quite
registered with me before: rove said after 2000 that there were 4
million evangelical christians that didn't vote in that election.
evidently they got them to vote this time.
glad you got over to the blog. i'll try to keep it up. probably less
verbose posts in the future--more just links to essential reading on
the web, with a bit of commentary. i'll let you know when i get up
some new posts.
well, it's going to get worse before it gets better in this country,
and in the world.
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