Replacing Heads With Hearts

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."

~Thomas Sowell 

J: This is an excellent point to make. Sowell in his book The Vision of the Anointed gives many examples of this situation where the heart or feelings about certain social phenomena were elevated higher than the mind or reason to the detriment of an entire social class.