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Crisis of rationality
phenomenologyofk • 2 cards
Unable to live with the suspicion that we may not actually be in possession of the final truth, we punish others for owning what we cannot admit in ourselves: the presence of doubt.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
paradox
Andreas Vlach • 1 card
rationality
Louis • 1 card
Uncertainty is an acid, corrosive to authority. Once the monopoly on information is lost, so too is our trust. Every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor. When proof for and agains
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
“Always suspect everybody” -Foxey, Sampson brass’s father
Capital hands at business have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass
“Only the paranoid survive” —Andy
But he sat in an agony of fear lest Raffles should be overheard in his loud and plain references to past facts – lest Mrs Bulstrode should be even tempted to listen at the door. How could he hinder her, how betray his terror by opening the door to detect her? She was a woman of honest direct habits, and little likely to take so low a course in orde
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