He's framing this as if he's taking the moral high road as the civil and rational intellectual stooping down to give credit to us crude dogmatists who got lucky.
In other words, the Zulus with their spears just defeated the British with their gunpowder.
You'll find that people who consider themselves the most analytical, logical, and emotionally detached will still cling to a bias in a way that is emotional, stubborn, and irrational, despite believing themselves to be above those impulses. Adams did that with the mRNA drugs, and now he's framing his concession as if our dogma (the reflexive distrust of government) achieved a rare victory over academics, so he wants us to have our tribal campfire celebrations and honor our mythical gods.
He's framing this as if he's taking the moral high road as the civil and rational intellectual stooping down to give credit to us crude dogmatists who got lucky.
In other words, the Zulus with their spears just defeated the British with their gunpowder.
You'll find that people who consider themselves the most analytical, logical, and emotionally detached will still cling to a bias in a way that is emotional, stubborn, and irrational, despite believing themselves to be above those impulses. Adams did that with the mRNA drugs, and now he's framing his concession as if our dogma (the reflexive distrust of government) achieved a rare victory over academics, so he wants us to have our tribal campfire celebrations and honor our mythical gods.