Emotionalism and doctrinaire self-righteousness

At Facebook, Jeff Goldstein writes,

We’ve embraced emotionalism as a society, and protected our decision to do so by surrounding it with esteem-fluffing and hair-trigger, faux-offendedness.

Doctrinaire self-righteousness is the new coin of the realm. And we’re worse off for it.

But hey. Whatever makes you feel good about yourself, amiright?

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