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“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
“There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.”
― A Woman of No Importance
― A Woman of No Importance
“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
“... 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
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