Many issues are misconstrued, not because they are too complex for most people to understand, but because a mundane explanation is far less emotionally satisfying than an explanation which produces villains to hate and heroes to exalt.
— Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society (2009), § The Dramatic
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