The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... civilizations pick up momentum during their upward movement , so they show a similarly dramatic acceleration when ... civilization itself is reach- ing a climactic complexity , becoming more urban and sophisti- cated and ...
... civilizations pick up momentum during their upward movement , so they show a similarly dramatic acceleration when ... civilization itself is reach- ing a climactic complexity , becoming more urban and sophisti- cated and ...
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... civilizations ( Islam ; India ; Manchu China ) whose centuries of growth lie far behind them and whose traditions survive as corrupted remnants in the minds of their inheritors . For men of these psychic types , drugs do what the waking ...
... civilizations ( Islam ; India ; Manchu China ) whose centuries of growth lie far behind them and whose traditions survive as corrupted remnants in the minds of their inheritors . For men of these psychic types , drugs do what the waking ...
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... civilization coin- cides in time with any other , even thousands of light - years off , is small ; the chance that it is nearly simultaneous with civilizations which happen to have evolved on the handful of planets within ten or twelve ...
... civilization coin- cides in time with any other , even thousands of light - years off , is small ; the chance that it is nearly simultaneous with civilizations which happen to have evolved on the handful of planets within ten or twelve ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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