Collin G Brooke

Intuitionism and the rejection of evidence and expertise are especially compatible with conservative populism.

we distrust to the point that it becomes dangerous to be a judge, a Capitol Police officer, a doctor, a librarian, a poll worker, or someone installing 5G equipment—our civil society cannot function. The winners then will be those who try to rule by force rather than consent.

everything some humans created can be changed by other humans.

Wisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.

The growth in extremism and terrorism is the flip side of ICT (information and communications technology) development. This is the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups.

There are three major psychological weapons that combatants often transfer into culture war: scapegoating, deception, and violent threats.

"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear." — Hannah Arendt

In other words, because the other side does it, we can do it.

The anthropologist David Graeber once wrote: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” The same is true of the Internet.