“People rarely appreciate their ignorance, because they lock themselves inside an echo chamber of like-minded friends and self-confirming news feeds, where their beliefs are constantly reinforced and seldom challenged.3”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“zipper’s operation. Most people had no idea.2 This is what Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have termed “the knowledge illusion.” We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we treat knowledge in the minds of others as if it were our own.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“If you really want truth, you need to escape the black hole of power and allow yourself to waste a lot of time wandering here and there on the periphery. Revolutionary knowledge rarely makes it to the center, because the center is built on existing knowledge”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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