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Such a fascinating and philosophical topic—can digital media influence (or force) users to be more truthful? Who gets to decide what content is true? 🤔

“…[I]n order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think…” p. 108

I’m telling y’all, the messages of this book are so überimportant.

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This book is absolute fire. So good, and so very important.

“[W]here developing the rule of law is concerned, the first five centuries are the hardest.” p. 48

“…[I]ntelligence is no defense against false belief. To the contrary, it makes us even better at rationalizing.” p. 24

“As… Henry David Thoreau put it, ‘All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.’ “ p. 188
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