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Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Cognitive Dissonance TourTwo recent articles, one from the New York Times, and one from a far more respectable, professional, and mainstream outlet, BigGovernment.com. NYT reporter Pamela Paul covers Hirsi Ali's recent appearances, including at one of those cocktail parties -- actually a dinner party -- we've heard so much about. This one hosted by David Frum. The appetizer? Condescension: Whither the conservative establishment in today’s bilious political landscape? Certainly the typical Tea Party denizen, with his “I Wanna Party Like It’s 1773” T-shirt and “You Lie!” trucker hat, would seem out of place on the Frums’ well-tended grounds, nibbling chicken skewers and mini-B.L.T.’s. In the presence of Ms. Hirsi Ali, at least, there was a sense of shared purpose. First course? Self-flattery: Also present was The Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, prom-girl pretty and winner of a Pulitzer this spring for “gracefully sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions,” including a rebuke of Sarah Palin. “Like all the best conservatives, I started off as a liberal,” she trilled. In a similar display of the intellectual right’s discomfort with Wasilla-brand populism, Ms. Frum mocked a speech by Ms. Palin in April on The Huffington Post. (“There was not a single memorable line, not a single new political idea, not a single proffered solution beyond the cliché.”) And lending a poignant immediacy to the rejiggered state of affairs was the Republican Senator Robert Bennett, ousted last month in the Utah primary for his votes on health care and Wall Street reform. A certain kind of nomad, all. But finally the main course: “Feminists are confused by her because they’re paralyzed by political correctness,” said Ms. Sommers, who along with Ms. Parker joined Mr. Hitchens’s post-dinner cluster of party smokers in the garden, where someone had left a packet of Nat Shermans (“No artificial additives!”) on a small wrought-iron table.
The best question of the evening came from a young man who simply asked what would be the best way to bring about an “Enlightenment” in the Muslim world. She replied that the best way would be to ask them questions about their religion and cause “cognitive dissonance” among those who blindly follow the violent exhortations of their imams. I actually laughed out loud when she used those words, as the cognitive dissonance occurring at that moment in the Track 16 gallery was practically audible. I could swear I heard the word “What?!?” thudding over and over again in the formerly comfortable brains of those around me. That's a good point -- this man could have engaged in the free exchange of ideas and posed the question to Hirsi Ali herself, and gotten himself the answer. (Or, at least: an answer.) Instead he remains silent in her presence, but then asks the question in a purely rhetorical manner to his like-minded FreeMinds (TM), where he doesn't risk getting an answer that might provoke him into thinking. These FreeMinds (TM) sure don't seem as eager to collect data as advertised. | Recent Comments
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