Reddit reviews An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
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I saw this guy's TED talk. And I think represents what Steven J Gould would call "cardboard Darwinism"
"Liberalism" and "Conservatism" is not some universal human dichotomy -- it's a false one in our own culture, but this guy thinks you can make generalizations about this the world over.
There was a time when nearly half of Americans called themselves "liberal." Yet self-identified liberals have declined to 20% today -- but would anyone deny we're not a more 'liberal' society than 60 years ago?
To say nothing of liberal-conservatism or conservative-liberalism. . . and any number of ideological stances that just can't be shoehorned into this guy's dichotomy -- which he builds with an awfully ad hoc rationale.
In all honestly, this guy comes off as a smarmy troll that knows he can get attention by playing that while "open-minded" canard -- albeit a whole lot more pretensions than your average troll.