. . .When someone finally does challenge you, you run away from it. You spin. You trumpet "facts." Of course, your facts are subject to interpretation. But that interpretation requires some sort of open dialogue. . . . .
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You got Monroe's MO down perfectly. There is no such thing as open dialogue when you are 100 percent right and everyone who disagrees with you is 100 percent wrong, by definition. This is Monroe's operational definition of "reality" and "facts." He may occasionally throw you a bone by agreeing with some minor point you make, but he will never, ever contemplate for even one second that he is not the giant intellect in the room and that eventually everyone else will have to agree with him or be doomed to eternal irrelevance.