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Rather than recognize that the highest human rationality is to reason about the things we want to want – not merely reason about how to get what we (assume we) want– the neoliberal policy approach aims simply to ... maximize existing preferences, however crudely they may be apprehended and irrespective of whether their content implies a pathway to disaster.

Ways Not to Think About Climate Change

Kysar, Doug

Trouillot on the importance of political power in creating silences: The play of power in the production of alternative narratives begins with the joint creation of facts and sources for at least two reasons. First, __facts are never meaningless: indeed, they become facts only because they matter in some sense, however minimal. Second, facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences.__

Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies; Second Edition

Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey (eds)

This was yet another manifestation of racism and contempt for the South, yes, but also of a universal cognitive disability, in that people had a very hard time imagining that catastrophe could happen to them, until it did.

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

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