Awesome! "Nucleating bad faith". I've looked for a concise phrase for the 
headlines on hard left aggregator sites for a long time. Now you've given it to 
me. I don't read them. But I assume hard right sites like Drudge and Breitbart 
are the same.

Despite my nauseatingly regular evocation of the Great Man Theory, I sympathize 
a little bit with those who yearn for trustworthy heuristics. Even consultants 
can't *always* get away with the answer "it depends". We ordinary mortals get 
tired out trying to sieve the wheat from the chaff. So I guess I can't blame 
them for buying products from Goop or looking for a nucleator of some kind. I 
don't know. I think I'll test my blood sugar ... fasting on weight days 
probably makes me susceptible to faulty reasoning. 8^D

On 12/8/20 3:22 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I suppose it is unsurprising that people are intrigued by celebrities like 
> Trump as leaders.  A projection of the complex needs of a large population to 
> something much easier to process.    Like Hedges rhetoric simplifies a set of 
> tradeoffs (e.g. Kerry's efforts toward energy independence versus their 
> environmental consequences).    It seems that's what many people want from 
> social networking platforms, is to maintain local or interpersonal type 
> dynamics.   Accusation is perhaps the wrong word -- nucleating bad faith for 
> the sake of a pitch, is more my objection.   Preventing that nucleation 
> pretty much requires confrontation.   Of course, many will turn back to the 
> consensus of their tribes, finding it unpleasant to have everything they say 
> stripped down to the bone.

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