> People need some notion of the current state of the world in order to have a meaningful opinion of how to change it. It goes without saying that if you want

> People need some notion of the current state of the world in order to have a meaningful opinion of how to change it. It goes without saying that if you want to get from here to there, you need to know where 'here' is. But I'm arguing that political debate is rarely about how to get from here to there, but rather is about which 'there' we should be heading for in the first place. Do you think the commonplace opinions that you've described are the result of people misjudging circumstances, and drawing incorrect conclusions about them, or do you think they're not even evaluating circumstances, but merely projecting values onto the world?