Joseph Scalia III

Can we move beyond propaganda in deciding the fate of the great mountain range to our south? Many Southwest Montanans have already and irreversibly made up their minds about whether to side with its “multiple use,” as espoused by the Gallatin Forest Partnership in an upbeat language that tries to sideline the abundant scientific reasons to keep the Gallatin Range wild.

My comments here do not address those folks. Nor are my thoughts solicited by those who are trying to protect Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from the damaging effects of pretentious campaign behavior.

Instead, I speak here as a psychoanalyst who has made it his business to take a hard look at ideology, and the troubling picture of how people fall prey to the disingenuous yarns it can spin.

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