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Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop
Byung-Chal Han • Vita Contemplativa
‘We are good and they are bad.’
Vadim Zeland • Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
One is that "[humans are..] the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, of things that are not that they are not" which is commonly interpreted as affirming philosophical relativism, but it can also be interpreted as claiming that knowledge is only relevant to humankind, that moral rightness and other forms of knowle
... See morePhilosopher George Santayana on why we follow the crowd:
“A man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body.
He may like to go alone for a walk,
but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.”
Novelty emerges from an individual mind, when it is judged by a committee, orthodoxy will usually prevail.
Hand Eysenck • Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 12)
Philosopher George Santayana on why we follow the crowd:
“A man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.”
'The Constitution is not a suicide pact'
Nicolas Chamfort—”Public opinion is the worst of all opinions” … “One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority” (90).
from Chamfort’s Maxims, 1795
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton