“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 …”
Source date (UTC): 2021-01-03 18:48:07 UTC
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“Intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are merely driven by it. People who read and write books have a tendency to overestimate the power of ideas. We rarely change our beliefs, thoughts, and lives by conscious reasoning, and never honestly.”
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