Middle brow dismissal. It’s like the people who dismiss productivity advice as all being the same when the reason it’s mostly the same is it works and the doing it is the hard part.

> Paul Graham, News.YC’s moderator emeritus, says that “The defining quality of the middlebrow dismissal is that it’s a cache dump of the writer’s prejudices…” This probably explains why they’re so common. It’s natural to see any news story as confirmation of your existing prejudices—but it’s easy to read confirmation where it’s not there.

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