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And having done that and gotten that so wrong, I decided to spend the ensuing year just out in Trumpworld, and I found a lot of economic dislocation.
I loathe what he stands for and I think he's
wrong
on the substance, but it's interesting to see someone with a set of ideas find a vehicle, Donald Trump, and then try to take control of the White House in order to advance his viewpoint.
I think Trump himself is the
wrong
answer to the right question, but they have some truth, and it's truth found in the epidemic of opiates around the country, it's truth found in the spread of loneliness, it's the truth found in people whose lives are inverted.
And listen, I've written eight million anti-Trump columns, but it is a problem, especially for the coastal media, that every time he does something slightly wrong, we go to 11, and we're at 11 every day.
I may get this a little wrong, but I think of the top-selling automotive models in this country, I think the top three or four are all pickup trucks.
Because it allowed me to focus on the hundreds of things that go right every day, as opposed to the three or four that go
wrong.
But it's also more responsible data visualization, because if you were to show the exact probabilities, maybe that would encourage people to get their flu jabs at the
wrong
time.
If you want to test a statistic that comes from a private company, you can buy the face cream for you and a bunch of friends, test it out, if it doesn't work, you can say the numbers were
wrong.
Philosophers, dramatists, theologians have grappled with this question for centuries: what makes people go
wrong?
Gets it wrong, you press a button on the shock box.
Our traditional societal heroes are wrong, because they are the exceptions.
Our kids' heroes are also
wrong
models for them, because they have supernatural talents.
But sometimes things can go wrong; for example, if you're born to a poor family and the signals are, "You better binge, you better eat every piece of food you're going to encounter."
So when we think about the problems, we always put it through a technological lens, a tech-centric, a techno-utopia, and there's nothing
wrong
with that, but it's something that we have to really think deeply about if we're going to move on these major issues, because it wasn't always like this.
I love Joel, don't get me wrong, but I'm not saying we go to Joel.
And the response of many young Nigerians, both male and female, was something along the lines of this: "Yes, rape is
wrong.
But where are the discussions on ethical decision-making, or building character, or discerning right from
wrong?
And then, the thing that debate allows us to do as human beings is open ourselves, really open ourselves up to the possibility that we might be
wrong.
The possibility of being
wrong.
When I work with those same teams that we talked about before, I ask them at the outset to pre-commit to the possibility of being
wrong.
We were on the highway, and I took the
wrong
exit.
It works like this: so, if you and I disagree, and I'm right, because I always am, how am I to make sense of the fact that you are so very, very
wrong?
Similarly, being civil can't be the same as being nice, because being nice means not telling people what you really think about them or their wrong,
wrong
views.
But look, if I've learned anything from studying the long history of religious tolerance in the 17th century, it's this: if you're talking about civility as a way to avoid an argument, to isolate yourself in the more agreeable company of the like-minded who already agree with you, if you find yourself never actually speaking to anyone who really, truly, fundamentally disagrees with you, well, you're doing civility
wrong.
Or imagine that instead of seeking constructive feedback about your performance, you instead told everyone who tried to help you that they were
wrong.
Is it that the definition is
wrong?
It just feels
wrong
for reasons that are hard to explain.
The dilemma in its many variations reveal that what we think is right or
wrong
depends on factors other than a logical weighing of the pros and cons.
For deniers to be right, who would have to be
wrong?
Who else would have to be
wrong?
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