http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:27:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/everything-you-think-is-wrong-is-actually-right#comment-44017 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/everything-you-think-is-wrong-is-actually-right#comment-44017#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:27:12 +0000 MisterHippity http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/everything-you-think-is-wrong-is-actually-right#comment-44017 Conventional wisdom is right. 2001, Magazine. While you may have read (hundreds of times in the very magazine this piece was being written in) that the conventional wisdom is wrong, it is actually usually right. It is “a broad agreement of elite opinion” and “a time-tested means of filtering out the bunk.” Attacks on the C.W. are vestiges of the New Left’s distrust of authority, and the consensus of wise, mainstream figures is reliable. FRANKLIN FOER, “IN DEFENSE OF THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: WHY WHAT EVERYONE THINKS IS USUALLY RIGHT,” THE NEW REPUBLIC, MARCH 19.]]> Conventional wisdom is right. 2001, Magazine. While you may have read (hundreds of times in the very magazine this piece was being written in) that the conventional wisdom is wrong, it is actually usually right. It is “a broad agreement of elite opinion” and “a time-tested means of filtering out the bunk.” Attacks on the C.W. are vestiges of the New Left’s distrust of authority, and the consensus of wise, mainstream figures is reliable. 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