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Book Chapter
Reality Asserted Itself
2009
Overview
Marshalling what he called “simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense,” Thomas Paine once decried what he observed to be stubborn and wrongheaded resistance to the American war for independence: “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” Paine, however, claimed to be optimistic that his cause would prevail in the fullness of time, as “Time makes more converts than reason” (Paine 1776).¹
At the time of this writing, in winter 2008, it seems clear in retrospect that in 2007
