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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I'll give that all the consideration it deserves.
The pool of respect is in fact not small. Just because you don't have any respect for newspapers doesn't mean the rest of the world does. Solipsism is no way to go through life.
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I'm not sure you are using the term 'Solipsism' correctly. I was taught that "Sollipsism" is the uncertainty, or possibly the belief, that one can only know one's own mind. To me, you are using it as some sort of substitute for close minded belief of the inherent correctness of your beliefs over those of others.
That isn't solipsism it is arrogance; of which there is no shortage in ANY sort of political, religious, or economic value systems.
By the way, mark me down as someone who has lost all respect for the NYT. They are eating their own seed corn, living off the intellectual achievement of times gone by. I don't care that they are liberal, I don't care that they basically are the distributor of liberal talking points on any issue; political jingoism has always been the nature of newspapers. I do care about the hypocrisy of their own arrogance in believing that second rate journalism is somehow better if it comes from the NYT.
It is no accident in an environment of fading newspapers, they are fading faster than the rest.
Is it arrogant of me to say this? I don't think so, but feel free to think otherwise.