'Wrong on metaphysics, wrong for America'

The election approaches, the ads get nasty. It's time-tested politics. Maybe you missed the attack ads on Kant and Aragorn?

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Chuck Wolfe

Chuck Wolfe Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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            <p>The election approaches, the ads get nasty. It's time-tested politics. Maybe you missed the attack ads on Kant and Aragorn?</p><p>In our day a candidate can speak sincerely, yet one ad can argue breach of trust or "flip-flop" and call for the guillotine to fall. What if negative ads had controlled the actual guillotines, events in Tolkien's world or the views of classic philosophers?  We may not have liked such a history ... (see ads below).</p>
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The election approaches, the ads get nasty. It's time-tested politics. Maybe you missed the attack ads on Kant and Aragorn?

In our day a candidate can speak sincerely, yet one ad can argue breach of trust or "flip-flop" and call for the guillotine to fall. What if negative ads had controlled the actual guillotines, events in Tolkien's world or the views of classic philosophers? We may not have liked such a history ... (see ads below).

By Chuck Wolfe

Chuck Wolfe provides a unique perspective about cities as a London-based urbanist writer, photographer, land use consultant and former Seattle land use and environmental attorney. He is currently a Vi