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There are 2 Americas. One of those Americas knows the other intimately, they are soaking in the other. A Second America knows essentially nothing of the First, they are hermetically sealed educationally & culturally, and they soak in a world of fictions & myths about the First.
The First America has viewed a thousand shows & videos and has listened to a thousand radio shows & podcasts documenting the dishonesty, siloed culture, unprincipled expediency & bad behavior of the Second. They have read blogs, magazines & books endlessly documenting the same.
The Second America knows almost nothing of this historical record of the dishonesty and unprincipled & unethical behavior of endless leading politicians, reporters, professors & intellectuals among the Second America.
The Second America also knows almost nothing of the science, culture, ideas, and institutions evolving in the Other America -- the elites in academia & media have blackballed conservatives, libertarians & classic liberals & they have memory-holed libraries of history & ideas.
@jonhaidt's *Righteous Mind* identifies an Elephant In The Room fact about America -- we have a rivalry between two teams which play into the deepest pathologies of our primitive tribal minds.
It needs to be emphasized that this cleavage exist in part & is magnified by the fact that the First American has been largely quarantined off from Second America, and its science, ideas, culture & institutions have been segregated in a ghetto & excluded from elite institutions.
.@jonhaidt testifies to the knowledge cleavage I have just recounted in has seminal book *The Righteous Mind* but the evidence is all around us and Haidt barely scratches the surface of a phenomena which stretches back generations and across institutions amazon.com/Righteous-Mind…
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