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yters
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People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Sup...
Is Yeats saying lack of conviction is a good thing? Or commenting on the fact that the wrong people have conviction?
xsmasher
on June 10, 2019
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I have always read that as "The good people are paralyzed by doubt (right now)" - a bad thing for them and for us. The context is a list of ways the world is falling apart.
andbberger
on June 7, 2019
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Yes he is saying that lack of conviction is a good thing.
yters
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Even though the verse context is listing a bunch of bad things that are happening?
Bad thing;
Bad thing;
Bad thing,
Bad thing, and
Bad thing;
Good thing, and Good thing!
jessaustin
on June 8, 2019
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