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In fact, it’s Douggie’s growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
There is no point which serves as a centre to the radii of the administration.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Chris Williamson • #401 - Rory Sutherland - The Psychology Of Transport, Google Maps & Bear Attacks
(it is a shibboleth of psychoanalytic treatment that the patient comes to psychoanalysis to change by remaining the same).
Adam Phillips • On Wanting to Change
This is the work of politics—understood as the ordering of society and the regulation of power to permit human flourishing while simultaneously restraining the most Hobbesian human instincts.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
a capacity for states of primary unintegration brought forward into later life is a developmental necessity.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
Authoritarians are people who think they know how the rest of us should live and how we should be governed. Never how we might learn to govern ourselves. They have the prescription that the rest of us just have to swallow. More potently, they know precisely what we should never be allowed to swallow, especially if they are euphoric substances that
... See moreRichard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
‘The Englishman’, Winnicott wrote, ‘… does not want to be upset, to be reminded that there are personal tragedies all over the place, that he is not really happy himself; in short – he refuses to be put off his golf.’21