Will Bench
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Will Bench
Denial is so much easier than looking inward, or backward, or forward; so much easier than change. But denial needs narratives, cover stories, and that is what conspiracy culture is providing.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
That is the opposite of the discourse that dominates today, the one that is so very hard on people and far too soft on structures.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Society and
In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness.
Judson A. Brewer • Judson A. Brewer
“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth. More likely, they’re resurfacing cached thoughts and narratives. Reading popular science books or news articles is not a substitute for understanding, and may make you stupider, by filling your mind with narratives and stories that don’t represent your own synthesis.