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And another domino about isolated communities as power defense falls into place. The only way to prevent a change cascade perpetually is to seal off the community from the ever-shifting outside world.

Anytime I read books like this, I end up contemplating reading the books referenced for more detail, because I need MORE to read.

The concept of "narrative transport" and its capacity to eliminate counterargument is probably part and parcel of why we get hooked on TRPGs. Being transported by a story that we are a part of has got to hit us neurologically like a drug.

"...certainty itself is an emotion."

McRaney kind of buried a lede here.

“What a person believes is no longer the point of the conversation, but why and how they believe those things and not others.”