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A subtle but important distinction

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Oct 29, 2021
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I think Haidt and Lukianoff have misstepped. In their recent post aiming to substantiate various lunacies of our current dark age, they have aimed for the term ‘monomania’ to describe the obsessions of the Right as a counterweight to the sanctimony of the obsessions of the Left. It’s a good read I recommend. They start with the following:

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