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As Gilroy-Ware puts it, “Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion.”
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.
– Unknown
It is a common pattern in cults and religions of all kinds and turns the imagination into a courtroom, with most seen as guilty until proven innocent. It squeezes out any space for exploration, discovery and surprise.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Flaws in forming and updating beliefs have the potential to snowball. Once a belief is lodged, it becomes difficult to dislodge. It takes on a life of its own, leading us to notice and seek out evidence confirming our belief, rarely challenge the validity of confirming evidence, and ignore or work hard to actively discredit information contradictin
... See moreAnnie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I’ve seen.
It perfectly illustrates something many of my favorite artists have described.
When you go to the studio, Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas?
“Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because it requires a stupid bravery all the time.”
Mayer strums a couple... See more
initiating an argument on shaky or misleading premises can lead to the collapse of the entire line of reasoning.