THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY (iSTEVE GLOSS I)
Steve
Sailer asks,
Malcolm
Gladwell, perhaps America's highest paid print journalist,
responds at length to my criticism of his bestseller Blink,
and I fire back. Who wins?
This
guy wins:
Modern
life is hectic. So hectic you don't have time to think,
and instead have to rely on snap judgments to do your
thinking for you. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about this
in 2005. It was called Blink: The Power of Thinking
Without Thinking, and became a bestseller when
thousands bought it without thinking. I was one of them.
It
began as an entertaining treatise on why you should always
trust your gut instincts. Mine told me this incredible
book would change my life, so I read on. In the event, my
gut was wrong. It was bullshit. The second half of the
book argued that, hey, actually, you shouldn't always
trust your gut instincts. By the end I'd learned precisely
nothing about "thinking without thinking" except
that in future I'd avoid making any impulse book-buying
decisions. Particularly ones that benefit Malcolm Gladwell.
Proof, if any were needed, that you shouldn't judge a book
by its cover.
—Charlie
Brooker, "You
Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover—But In Richard
Littlejohn's Case, We'll Make An Exception,"
Guardian, 7 May 2007
Gladwell: My gut feeling is
that this is not a good look
Kevin
Michael Grace,
9.00 am, 24 May 2007►
THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
The
cheap tricks of advocacy, the numerous permitted means of
arranging the evidence in such a way as to produce a
misleading effect, all the professional, mountebank skills
of the adversary system of trial—which
is the pride and joy of our legal system.
-- Patrick Marnham, Trail
Of Havoc: In The Steps Of Lord Lucan
Kevin
Michael Grace,
2.57 am, 23 May 2007►
PENSÉE
Damn the neocons!
Damn everyone that won't damn the neocons! Damn everyone
that won't put lights in his window and sit up all night
damning the neocons!
(With apologies to
the Anti-Federalists)
Kevin
Michael Grace,
12.30 am, 23 May 2007►
