Showing posts with label irrationality. Show all posts
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Monday, June 02, 2025

True Libertie Is lost, which alwayes with right Reason dwells 
Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being: 
Reason in man obscur'd, or not obeyd, 
Immediately inordinate desires
And upstart Passions catch the Government
From Reason, and to servitude reduce Man till then free. 
Therefore since hee permits 
Within himself unworthie Powers to reign
Over free Reason, God in Judgement just
Subjects him from without to violent Lords;   
Who oft as undeservedly enthrall His outward freedom:
Tyrannie must be,   
Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.
 
John Milton, Paradise Lost
 
 

Sunday, August 01, 2021

Popular delusions occur when appealing but baseless stories spread contagiously from one person to another. Some ideas are more virulent than others: people have been found to react most enthusiastically to narratives of fear.

Edward Chancellor, "Waiting to Deflate" New York Review (August 19, 2021)

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