Word: simplism
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...might as well make this more entertaining than it has now become - all courtrooms and Chris Matthews banging talking heads together like coconuts. I would rather see Al and George duke it out than have to listen to any more of the vicious simplism that is becoming the media style in the war between the Blue States and the Red States...
...sense, nostalgic moralists are almost always right, as Rome eventually proved. The problem is that nostalgic moralism may turn itself into a political program -- which produces jackboot simplism, the fascism that feels like a breath of fresh air as it approaches, and like an apocalypse in its aftermath...
...movingly antiwar movie that is saved from being a mere tract by its rich performances and its compassion for the Americans who fought and suffered in the war. The Deer Hunter is far more elusive-more forceful, less coherent, more artistically ambitious but also dangerously close to political simplism, historical inaccuracy and moral kitsch...
...Northerner who traveled through the South in the 1850s and wrote three books about Southern life, emphasized the lurid, brutal and simply inefficient aspects of slavery in order to promote the abolitionist cause. This was a Simon Legree approach to the subject-and there are aspects of such simplism in Roots...
Nations and wars are too complex for such simplism. Hearts and Minds discounts those who were genuinely confused or frightened by Communism, and who were being used by McCarthy and his cohort. It minimizes or patronizes those for whom patriotism was more than the fatuous wearing of a flag in a lapel, yet never understood why their sons were sent off to die. On occasion, it brilliantly illustrates America's grievous misunderstanding and savage oversimplification of the Viet Nam War. But, oversimplifying itself, it dismisses those who perceived the intricacies of history, who refused to condone totalitarianism simply because...
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