I remember being surprised when I found out I could take logic as a college course. Logic was pretty simple as far as I was concerned. What next, a major in common sense? I could see where logic might be useful, like the way memorizing the periodic table could help in chemistry, but no one ever explained to me why it might fit a liberal arts curriculum.
I look back and realize my problem - I was just a kid. Or I should say, I wasn't an adult, which meant I had never lived in the real world. My bubble kept me blissfully unaware of the atrophied state of public logic, which lowered the standard for making reasoned arguments. The president himself goes on stage and suggests increased COVID testing leads inevitably to increased COVID prevalence; it passes for logic in this country.
