{"id":31520,"date":"2012-11-27T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/trying-to-avoid-aneurysms-while-also-avoiding-epistemic-closure.html"},"modified":"2012-11-27T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:52:49","slug":"trying-to-avoid-aneurysms-while-also-avoiding-epistemic-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/trying-to-avoid-aneurysms-while-also-avoiding-epistemic-closure.html","title":{"rendered":"Trying to avoid aneurysms while also avoiding epistemic closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m starting to block\/mute some commenters on some of the Google Plus feeds I follow. I hate having to do that, because if &quot;feels&quot; rude and I don&#39;t want to be one of those guys who only wants to hear what he wants to hear. And I also don&#39;t want silence to imply consent. \u00a0But &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; well, I don&#39;t mind <i>disagreement<\/i> &#8212; &quot;The Democrats are wrong in this because of X, Y, and Z&quot; &#8212; and in fact find it useful both to promote discussion and to possibly learn something from. (Honestly speaking, sometimes my mind is changed.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if the extent of your commenting is &quot;Democrats are poopyheads who ought to be tried for treason and shipped off to the gulag&quot; (paraphrase of a very real comment I just ran across), my blood pressure really doesn&#39;t need the trolling, and responding isn&#39;t likely to do anything more than add to the noice-vs-signal ratio. \u00a0So take it to Reddit (or Facebook); I won&#39;t be reading it (more than once) on G+.<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/5815535486989178801\/5815535494266823298'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-R5WBM8UV2B0\/ULTuuFJzIoI\/AAAAAAAAPRA\/OelrAKGXRIM\/net-troll%255B1%255D.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/NXfTZiG7T3L' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m starting to block\/mute some commenters on some of the Google Plus feeds I follow. I hate having to do that, because if &quot;feels&quot; rude and I don&#39;t want to be one of those guys who only wants to hear what he wants to hear. And I also don&#39;t want silence to imply consent. \u00a0But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/trying-to-avoid-aneurysms-while-also-avoiding-epistemic-closure.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trying to avoid aneurysms while also avoiding epistemic closure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/10\/goofiness.html","url_meta":{"origin":31520,"position":0},"title":"Goofiness","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Jun-02 1:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Republican activists are compiling dossiers of lobbyists to identify which ones are Republicans, which are Democrats, and how they have been making personal contributions to candidates in the past. 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