“I think you’re illustrating his point perfectly, because you tend to want to be popular, at the expense of thinking for yourself.”

Nearly everyone wants to be, if not popular, then at least well-liked and one of the ways people do that is by paying a few groupthink dues. How much horseshit any of us might utter, the extent to which it is actual horseshit and the degree to which we’re silly enough to really believe it is another story. Comity comes with a price in integrity — sometimes a little confusion as well. The “telling it like it is” people, sadly, tend to be assholes and the times they’re wrong loom much larger than they need to. One can be right and righteous in a way that guarantees isolation and bitterness (not to mention becoming imbued with an extreme of fecklessness normally reserved for senators).

and if if makes you feel any better i didnt link to jeneane or her hubby either. it was a very dark day when i wrote that post and i knew i was going to leave out a lot of people, i just wanted to get the story down.