Growing Up and Changing One's Mind

My description for what ails the United States is that there is a great deal of immaturity. It does not take much effort to maintain one’s beliefs formed in their teens and twenties, the greater work comes from accepting that not all of one’s beliefs of their 50s should be the same as in their 20s. Veterans Day intellectualoid.com https://intellectualoid.com/2026/11/11/veterans-day/ “We have stopped believing in reason’s power to persuade. The right thinks the critical social theories espoused by many on the left are both wrong and pernicious, but it doesn’t expect to be able to convince the left of this view. Hence the move to use raw political or legal power to suppress it. The left, meanwhile, thinks many of those who don’t share its premises are motivated by racism and other forms of bigotry that are in most cases untouchable by argument. Hence the move to use moral condemnation to get resisters excluded from social circles and cultural institutions in which they enjoy various…

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