Pablo Rodriguez

“Constructionism is the recognition, backed up by the last half century of brain research, that people don’t passively take in reality. Each person actively constructs their own perception of reality. That’s not to say there is not an objective reality out there. It’s to say that we have only subjective access to it.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“This fifty-state, sea-to-shining-sea intimacy with Latino people, and “white” America’s acceptance and rejection of it, is the force holding the United States together, and tearing it apart.”
― Héctor Tobar, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

“But the soul has no parts. You might argue that human souls did not evolve, but appeared one bright day in the fullness of their glory. But when exactly was that bright day?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“In a crowd, Le Bon postulates, the individual’s consciousness “disintegrates” into a collective, and more primitive, state of mind. Under the right conditions, this primitive mind—Freud’s “id”—can be managed and manipulated by the careful choice of words, colors, music, and staged events. The result is the igniting of the two most powerful drives of the unconscious: Freud’s Eros, and Thanatos. These show themselves, Le Bon said, as the love and adoration for a leader, a thirst for violence, and “absolute certainty in the cause, a belief in their own omnipotence, and a furious hatred of perceived opponents.”10”
― Mary Wald, Sowing Hate and Chaos: How Propaganda Is Used to Destroy Democracy