The trouble starts with people thinking they should have a vote themselves, and from there it’s a short step to thinking everybody should.
Aug 252020
Aug 242020
Many false beliefs are instrumental, but no one holds them instrumentally.
Aug 212020
Nothing in psychology replicates as well as stereotypes.
Aug 202020
Censorship, n. Official liars unionizing to keep out competition.
Aug 192020
Naive is a polite term for stupid, and stupid is a polite term for rotten.
Aug 182020
Curing delusion has become, for psychiatry, a simple matter of demanding that the world see the subject as he sees himself.
Aug 172020
A proper jack-of-all-trades must have mastered one or two.
Aug 142020
One must ask of Inclusiveness, as of all political ideologies, what and whom it excludes.
Aug 132020
Wanamaker’s Law: Half of everything is wasted or harmful, and we don’t know which half.
Aug 122020
I respect pretense, which suggests shame.