Joni Gusho

“if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system.”18”
― Joseph Heath, Enlightenment 2.0

“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to think and act rationally. But the obvious practical implication is not that it’s okay to be irrational: it’s that we need to work a lot harder at becoming rational, and that where we fail, we need to develop systems and strategies that insulate us from the consequences of these failings. It is important to remember that rationality is not some alien set of rules imposed on us from on high; it is, rather, the basis of human freedom and autonomy.”
― Joseph Heath, Enlightenment 2.0

“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge, that distinguish the individual, and direct the laws which bind society.”
― Joseph Heath, Enlightenment 2.0

“Spin doctors in every era have known that perception is infinitely more potent than mere fact.”
― Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914