Monday, February 10, 2014

Dissonant Chords

I'm astonished by the vitriolic responses of both Woody Allen himself and those rushing to defend him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html?src=me

In certain instances, such an emotional response (meaning my own astonishment) to widespread behavior by large numbers of people indicates a flawed set of assumptions by myself regarding the circumstances involved, and is reason for re-evaluation. In other cases the dissonance is the inevitable result of aligning oneself with the truth even when it proves to be unpopular, along with (potentially) a flawed set of assumptions regarding the motivations and/or capabilities of others drawing the diametrically opposed conclusions.

As of this point I am assuming this is an example of the latter.

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