Furji

“The bottom line is that we do not accept climate change because we wish to avoid the anxiety it generates and the deep changes it requires. In this regard, it is not unlike any other major threat. However, because it carries none of the clear markers that would normally lead our brains to overrule our short-term interests, we actively conspire with each other, and mobilize our own biases to keep it perpetually in the background.”
― George Marshall, Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

“America was founded on an imagined moral superiority and purity. The fact that dominance of others came, and still comes, from unrestrained acts of violence is washed out of the national narrative. The steadfast failure to face the truth, Baldwin warned, perpetuates a kind of collective psychosis. Unable to face the truth, white Americans stunt and destroy their capacity for self-reflection and self-criticism. They construct a world of self-serving fantasy. Those who imbibe the myth of whiteness externalize evil—their own evil—onto their victims. Racism, Baldwin understood, is driven by an inner loneliness and latent guilt.”
― Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour

“Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is “We don’t know.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

“Argue like you’re right and listen like you’re wrong.”
― Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World