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Amanda Montell
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in Baltimore, MD, The United States
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Amanda Montell
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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“words are the medium through which belief systems are manufactured, nurtured, and reinforced, their fanaticism fundamentally could not exist without them.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“It’s not that smart people aren’t capable of believing in cultish things; instead, says Shermer, it’s that smart people are better at “defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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