Bat Shit Crazy...
...Purely Natural Another explanation for Polarization (And another plug for epigenetics) A liberal friend said she was hard-pressed to " ... understand what the Right is so worked up about. In America, particularly right wing America, the issues are not important, the strength of the conviction is key. They are just bat shit crazy." Thus, her measured explanation of the right’s philosophy is: “Bat shit crazy.” Purely polarized, she is. Crazy. Batshit Crazy. I say: Whether one or the other — a person moved by issues or one moved by their own depth of conviction — is in the formulas of their DNA and, more importantly, the formulation of their epigenomes . As I follow the leading discoveries of epigenetics I am ever more convinced of such previous heresies as heritable environmental influences. If your peers in your early adulthood (or your parents in your childhood) were fire-breathing happy warriors for some position or the other, you, and your of...