“… but people stopped believing and needed arguments to explain and justify their unbelief. We make our choices intuitively (seizing rational incentives) in our social and historical context – usually without being able to articulate why we’ve done so. …”
Source date (UTC): 2021-01-03 18:48:08 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1345804150815207424
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“Intellectual elites often struggle to bring their societies with them. Their default role is to tag along behind explaining how things inevitably turned out how they did. The conventional story is that philosophers attacked religion and people stopped believing …”
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1345804149678628868
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