"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense." David Edwards, author of Burning All Illusions
A muddled argument: Shermer argues for the reality of free will
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Michael Shermer has a new book out called Truth: What it is, How to Find
it, and Why it Still Matters, and I’ve mentioned it before. I’m reading it
now, an...
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