The former foreign secretary’s description of this unedifying reality has much resonance if we look even cursorily at the present intellectual landscape. Informed and fact-based arguments are hard to find in the public discourse. Instead contradiction and confusion clouds public thinking on many issues. Often a shallow conversation poses as debate. And with some exceptions ‘groupthink’ in the broadcast media obscures rather than illuminates complex reality. The lack of reasoned explanations produces distorted paradigms and damaging misconceptions, which in turn fosters a climate that hampers the evolution of sound policy.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:38:16 +0000
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