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Can Trump voters be subjects of mass psychosis?
As I said earlier today, my sister and I were trying to figure out the Trump support conundrum and I suggested it’s sort of like mass psychosis. Neither of us knows whether it is possible. But poets and philosophers do. … Continue reading
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Tagged mass psychosis, Nietzsche, Roger Cohen, Trump
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How I Learned The Facts of Life: NOT from Facebook
Do you get your news stories from Facebook? If you do, why, why, why, why? Yesterday in the New York Times, Charlie Warzel wrote that Mark Zuckerberg “is the most powerful unelected man in America” and that Facebook is too … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Charlie Warzel, Facebook, New York Times, Roger Cohen
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Mysteries of Life: Why does anyone believe The Big Lie?
Big lies are yammered over and over and over. I don’t believe them. I know the facts. Why would anyone else believe them? Because… Repeat something often enough, brazenly enough and aggressively enough to people dazed enough by the cacophony … Continue reading
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Tagged big lies, Goebbels, Hitler, How I Learned the Facts of Life, Roger Cohen, Trump
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