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The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time by Maria Konnikova

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Human beings don’t like to exist in a state of uncertainty or ambiguity. When something doesn’t make sense, we want to supply the missing link. When we don’t understand what or why or how something happened, we want to find the explanation. ...more

The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next

by Paul Frijters

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“Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with trammels increasingly burdensome. They do not accept this legislation with impunity. Accustomed to put up with every yoke, they soon end by desiring servitude, and lose all spontaneousness and energy.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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“It is easy to devise numerous possible scenarios of future developments, each one, on the face of it, equally likely.”
― Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

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“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: courage, honesty, truth, truth-telling

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“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: christianity

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“When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders have recourse to different expedients. The principal of them are three in number and clearly defined—affirmation, repetition, and contagion. Their action is somewhat slow, but its effects, once produced, are very lasting.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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