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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari

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Aug 17, 2025 08:23AM

“What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters — specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.”
― Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

tags: democracy, elections

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“One's love for despotism is in exact proportion to one's contempt for one's country.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution

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“What we are against will unite us, while what we are for divides us. Therefore, we should emphasise what we oppose. The common enemy unites us, while the positive values each of us are defending actually divides us. Therefore, we must create strategic alliances to overthrow the present order of things, of which the core could be described as human rights, anti-hierarchy, and political correctness – everything that is the face of the Beast, the anti-Christ or, in other terms, Kali-Yuga.”
― Alexander Dugin

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