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Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

by T.R. Fehrenbach

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All Desire Is a Desire for Being

by René Girard

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Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner

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we are all more susceptible to conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies in times of personal or collective crisis.

Moderation

by Elaine Castillo

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The Machine Stops

by E.M. Forster

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“movements tend to be more effective when they don’t go against existing power structures, but instead exploit the inner contradictions of dominating ideologies to reframe their notions and ideas.”
― Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

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“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, people, and ages, it is the rule,”
― Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

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“Psychological studies show that specific gaming designs such as badges, leaderboards and performance graphs can be powerful tools to maximise customer participation and brand loyalty.”
― Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

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“Every attempt to bend some part of the world to our will creates disorder somewhere else, often in the form of heat.”
― Katie Mack, The End of Everything

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“In some ways, this is the ultimate goal of theoretical physics: to find a way to take all the complicated messy stuff we see around us and rearrange it into something pretty and compact and simple that just looks complicated because of our weird low-energy perspective.”
― Katie Mack, The End of Everything

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