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Often our beliefs are post hoc constructions designed to justify what we’ve just done, or to support the groups we belong to.
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
So in our timidity, let each of us make a choice: Whether to remain a conscious servant of falsehood (of course, it is not out of inclination, but to feed one’s family, that one raises his children in the spirit of lies). Or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect both by one’s children and contemporaries.
Live Not by Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Utopian ideologies are psychopathic and arise from an inability to inhabit reality (at least without treatment).
Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
James Lindsay
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