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that they cannot be moved by evidence, and they can be induced by Hitler’s helpless and depressed, then terror to hate, and on to self-praise and invincibility rhetorical strategy.
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Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
Delusion in Buddhist psychology means not seeing things as they really are, being caught by the appearance and not going any deeper than that: you are you, I am I, happiness is happiness, sadness is sadness and never the twain shall meet. This is the kind of attitude that delusion gives rise to. The delusion that we suffer most from is the delusion
... See moreBrother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Delusions are a reality. But the content of delusions is, by definition, unreal.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as “delusion of reprieve.”