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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this:


If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.* Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”


* I would add to Sagan's wisdom the additional obstructive element of sectarianism and how it binds adherents to the delusion on a social level

(In response to this post by Plano Hoo)

Posted: 10/20/2020 at 11:40AM


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