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(cont.)

this is not to say, btw, that the center doesn't have its own excesses, particularly of the religious kind (faith). like excessive faith in the efficiency of markets, excessive faith in permanent progress, excessive faith in individual initiative as the cure to all problems, excessive faith in the human ape's ability to overcome tribalism, excessive faith in the human ape's capacity for rationality, excessive faith in its own merits and excessive discount of the role of luck, and so forth. the neglect of such blind spots is perhaps what triggers the right/left extremes in the first place...