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“First, if you want reliable information - pay good money for it. Suppose a shady billionaire offered you the following deal: "I will pay you $30 a month, and in exchange, you will allow me to brainwash you for an hour every day, installing in your mind whichever political and commercial biases I want." Would you take the deal? Few sane people would. So the shady billionaire offers a slightly different deal: "You will allow me to brainwash you for one hour every day, and in exchange, I will not charge you anything for this service." Now the deal suddenly sounds tempting to hundreds of millions of people. Don't follow their example.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“See, how cruel the whites are: their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by holes. Their eyes have a staring expression. They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something, they are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want, we do not understand them, we think that they are mad.” I asked him why he thought the whites were all mad. “They say they think with their heads,” he replied.

“Why, of course. What do you think with?” I asked him in surprise.

“We think here,” he said, indicating his heart.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“What you aim at, determines what you see.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“If the cards are always stacked against you, perhaps the game you are playing is somehow rigged (perhaps by you, unbeknownst to yourself). If the internal voice within says the same denigrating things about everyone, no matter how successful, how reliable can it be? Maybe its comments are chatter, not wisdom. "There will always be people better than you" - that's a cliché of nihilism, like the phrase, "in a million years, who's going to know the difference?". The proper response to that statement is not, "well, then, everything is meaningless". It's "any idiot can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters". Talking yourself into irrelevance is not a profound critique of Being. It's a cheap trick of the rational mind.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos