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What fascinates me here is this: our elite culture has built a set of myths that govern entire views and outlooks, and they are completely and totally wrong.
During the Vietnam War years, to take just one example, you didn't have this sort of thing. There were people who supported the war and people who opposed it.
Today, the mainstream thinkers--Krugman's "Very Serious People"--all spout the same thing, even though it's total nonsense.