Context is For Trying to Understand Reality, Not Winning Arguments. That's the Problem.

A smart piece at The Atlantic has me thinking about our too-short attention spans and motivated reasoning.

Hey all, Parker here.

Over at The Atlantic, Yair Rosenberg has a really good piece about context, and I highly recommend you read it¹.

He opens with an anecdote about the way the promotional team behind “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” stripped context from a two-and-a-half-star Roger Ebert review and used “wall-to-wall action” (in context: “‘Terminat…