Lyle Lovett - Good Intentions
"It makes for a good day for some serious reflection And massive rationalization."
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Bonus: Reading the news is the new smoking
From Just Some Book. Even though he died long before Tangerine Palpatine was in the White House, Uncle Carl saw him coming:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this:
If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
–Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
Also, I bet you have known someone like this:
The more you invest in a set of beliefs – the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction – the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don’t give up. You double down.
–Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia
4 comments:
Carl was talking about cognitive dissonance, and when combined with Republican disinformation since the 80s has created a strong confirmation bias on top of it.
This is a. Important year.
Tony, do you think we can go back to a world like Obama vs Boehner, or have the Tea Party and then MAGA-its broken this country in a fundamental way?
I do t think so. Rs, despite being I. The minority in the country have way too much power (tyranny of the minority). I thimpnk they’ll either explode with a new pretend moderate party rising from the ashes, or will cement power through fascism.
My guess is the dysfunction continues until late in the decade when the demographic forces overcome the minority bias in our system.
Well, Anne is now a Irish citizen, and thus an EU citizen....
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