—“When we turn to political and international thinking, we are further from stra

—“When we turn to political and international thinking, we are further from straight scientific thinking. Such words as: ‘progress’, ‘liberty’, ‘democracy’, ‘fascist’, ‘reactionary’, ‘racist’, ‘liberal’, and many other are used in political thinking and communication in such a way that they carry more of emotional then of factual meaning. So long as words so used are the ordinary terms of rival politicians, how can we hope to think straight in national and international affairs?

We must look forward to the day when the thinking about political and international affairs will be as unemotional and as scientific as that about the properties of numbers or the atopic weights of elements. The spirit of impartial investigation of facts unswayed by irrelevant emotions has given us great advances in the sciences. It’s triumphs will be even greater when it is applied to the important affairs of life. We shall be able to discuss and settle such questions a public v private ownership, control of atomic weapons, and disarmament treaties as successfully as physicists have discussed and settled Einstein’s theory of relativity.”— Robert Thouless, Straight and Crooked Thinking p22-23

(We have it. That does not mean people will appreciate Propertarianism and Testimonial Truth any more than they appreciated Darwin.)