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so plato's discussion of "the noble myth", where uninformed people can be induced to engage in broadly beneficial behavior through scientifically incoherent but confidently presented and logical on first glance. he kinda diagnosed the modern looksmaxxing issues in its original form, although we took that to the logical extreme and made a realtime case study on the dangers of such noble myths escalating out of control

this book reminds me of how much i miss the old Gavin De Becker before he completely lost the plot and went insane. he used to be such a great resource, it's a damn shame he completely lost his marbles

"unwashed by the fire hose of knowledge" is an absolutely insane quote and i will be stealing it immediately