unreflecting

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Writing in his 1831 political chronicle, Democracy in America, Tocqueville, ever the optimist, posited that those “who have made a special study of the laws derive from occupation certain habits of order … and a kind of instinctive regard for the regular connection of ideas, which naturally render them very hostile to the … unreflecting passions of the multitude.”

From Slate

In his book, “The Spirit of Laws,” the Baron de Montesquieu laid out a path forward for the new republic that would balance its democratic impulses – which feared institutional and distant power and revered dispersed and localized power – and its nationalist impulses, which feared the rule of the mob, the ascendancy of an unreflecting reliance on reason, and lack of efficiency and energy in the government.

From Washington Times

It is mechanical, unreflecting, consistently on-message — the purest near-living expression of data management to be found on Earth.

From Seattle Times

The unreflecting surface seems to wink.

From New York Times

She is democratic in her censure, flaying the left for its “slick, unreflecting cynicism,” the right for its “unembarrassed enthusiasm for self-interest.”

From New York Times