# Right Reason and the Smudge

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Podcast: [Blog & Mablog](https://stenobird.com/podcast/blog-mablog-17703)
Published: 2026-04-07T16:11:50+00:00
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One of the ways to test whether truth is a person’s absolute, as opposed to whether his tribal loyalty is, would be by seeing whether he ever acknowledges that his political opponent, the one who is against his tribe, has ever made a fair point. Or is he wrong about absolutely everything? This is how our polarization has come to pass; this is where it comes from. Far from making everyone more tolerant, relativism pushes people into the assumption that anyone who differs must be an orc. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

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