Eye of the Beholder

Our political differences exist at a level beneath perception, determining what we do and don't see

N.B. I wrote this essay today, before the bodycam footage from the officer who shot Renee Good was released. You can see it here.

One of the great lessons of twentieth-century philosophy is that meaning structures perception. What that means, in basic terms, is that the way we see, interact with and ultimately think about the world depends, at a prior le…