On Nuance

swilldog

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Monday November 21, 2005 · 2:10 PM PST

2005/11/21 · 14:10

[ First diary. Please be gentle. ;-) ]

Was scanning the comments in a recent entry, and came across someone ranting about nuance. "Nuance BAD! Ivy League BAD! ARRRR!" (okay, I took some liberties with their comment)

I see this attitude quite a bit. We're so fixated on succintness, on crafting the perfect sound bite, that we seem terrified to acknowledge that complicated issues are actually, you know, complicated.

So forgive the presumption, but isn't nuance what politics is all about?

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