{"id":2470,"date":"2008-04-06T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/06\/hoisted-from-comments-moderate\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:54:34","slug":"hoisted-from-comments-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/06\/hoisted-from-comments-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoisted from Comments: Moderate, or Linearly Independent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stealing a post-generating method from Brad DeLong, Bill Tozier posted and interesting comment<\/a> that I wanted to highlight:<\/p>\n

\n

I’ve often wondered why people place me (a moderate in a lot of polarized
\ndebates) “in the middle”.<\/p>\n

I think I’m orthogonal<\/i>, not “in the middle”. I’m concerned about
\nplenty of things; they’re just not what’s being discussed, and in some
\ncases they can’t even be framed in the terms used in the core debate. My
\nsuspicions grow that fundamentalism should not be defined as being extreme,
\nor merely holding extreme opinions, but rather as framing every discussion
\nincluding those having nothing to do with a subject<\/i> in terms of the
\npolarizing issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s an interesting angle on the whole business. I’m not sure I really agree with that definition, or maybe I’m just not happy with “fundamentalism” as the label. I’ll have to think about it a bit more, but I have a great big stack of homeworks to grade, so I won’t have anything to say about it for a while.<\/p>\n

I thought it deserved better than being buried in concern trolling and willful misreadings, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stealing a post-generating method from Brad DeLong, Bill Tozier posted and interesting comment that I wanted to highlight: I’ve often wondered why people place me (a moderate in a lot of polarized debates) “in the middle”. I think I’m orthogonal, not “in the middle”. I’m concerned about plenty of things; they’re just not what’s being… Continue reading Hoisted from Comments: Moderate, or Linearly Independent?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}