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“... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.”
― The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
― The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
“Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they’ve become culturally entrenched—once they’ve become tribal badges of honor—are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.”
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“What thrives online is not the writing that reflects anything close to the reality in which you and I live. Nor does it allow for the kind of change that will create the world we wish to live in.”
― Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
― Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
“They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.”
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
― The Bataille Reader
― The Bataille Reader
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