The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
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Mythologizing the world as an attempt to “make sense” of it is a unique and curious human habit.
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magical thinking works in service of restoring agency.
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one of the “Disinformation Dozen,” a group of twelve people responsible for spreading 65 percent of all vaccine-related misinformation online.
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I’d speculate that this yearning feels even stronger for writers, or dreamers in general, who are forever narrativizing themselves.