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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
People don't believe things they don't want to believe.
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Necessarily, this also means people believe what they want to believe. On both points, this is well done:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...g-tariffs.html
You might think a large swath of the world has critical thinking skills. If you're smart enough to acquire a graduate degree, you're exposed to people with them most of the time. But even among the "smart," one must notice, this skill is becoming less ubiquitous. It's been declining for years, for a number of reasons.
Imagine the deficit among the hoi polloi. It's horrifying.
