DominicBunnell
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I've always had a suspicion that people in the skeptic/atheist/materialist world don't actually read the likes of Sheldrake and Radin, and that people in the New Age/paranormal world don't read authors like Dennett and Dawkins. Rather, both sides just seek out quotations and passages here and there that make their enemies look bad and help them to feel that they're on the right side. Both sides think they're in some kind of battle to save the world, and time is running out. In this kind of situation, there's no time to be charitable or understanding, or to read books by bad people. You've just got to win at all costs.
Anyway, my hunch is that they don't really read each other very much, but it's going to be very difficult to get good data on this, since nobody will want to admit that this is all about tribalism and caricaturing the other side. Almost everybody will say that they've read plenty of books by people on the other side, but it would be fascinating to know the truth about that.
Anyway, my hunch is that they don't really read each other very much, but it's going to be very difficult to get good data on this, since nobody will want to admit that this is all about tribalism and caricaturing the other side. Almost everybody will say that they've read plenty of books by people on the other side, but it would be fascinating to know the truth about that.