Richard’s Reviews > How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion > Status Update

There's always a sort of recursive meta effect when reading about how thoughts happen biochemically. It's a little like being aware of your breathing.

"The full explanation for interpretation polarization requires a gestalt understanding of not just politics, but the psychology of reasoning, motivation, social costs, norms, beliefs, attitudes, and values, not just at the level of human interaction, but within individual brains, right down to neurons, hormones, and ganglia."

And here we begin to see why breaking echo chambers is so damn hard.

"The world, as you know experience it, is a simulation running inside your skull, a waking dream."

Man, Mage: The Ascension prepped me for so much in life.

The opening story about the backlash of the 9/11 Truther community against one of their own who changed their mind is sitting next to the 2/3rds of the book I've finished on cult language and they're talking amiably.