💬 Opinion 2d ago · Shmuel Klatzkin

All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter

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Though last week’s article began talking about ancient tales of conflict, it didn’t deliver. Time to pick that thread up, beginning with an example of conflict taken from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Stories can deal with conflict in a different way than a reasoned investigation. Rational analyses require a distance and are suspicious of natural biases. Civilization knows the need for such investigations. Even when they are uncomfortably contentious, they are the mark of freedom, that we

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