Indignation is a prophylactic against thought. And yet, especially on the left, because of the left’s particular vulnerability to the moral fentanyl that is utopianism, indignation had replaced reason as the ethical prerequisite for all intellectual and political argument. This is what comes of the category mistake of ascribing moral worth to one’s feel…
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