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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... mystic dieting , and the alienation of practically everyone began in earnest . Compared with those psychedelic days , when every group one could think of took to the streets , often to do nothing more creative than wreck its own ...
... mystic dieting , and the alienation of practically everyone began in earnest . Compared with those psychedelic days , when every group one could think of took to the streets , often to do nothing more creative than wreck its own ...
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... mystic assertions , they strike one as strange . Something primitive , like loose roving gangs of broken , scattered tribes , so they affect one . And the swarms of people somehow produce an impression of silence , of secrecy , of ...
... mystic assertions , they strike one as strange . Something primitive , like loose roving gangs of broken , scattered tribes , so they affect one . And the swarms of people somehow produce an impression of silence , of secrecy , of ...
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The End of the Rational Consensus Charles M. Fair. their half - mystic assertions " -in the restlessness that carried them off from " good homes " to become street people or made them take to the road in droves in their microbuses ...
The End of the Rational Consensus Charles M. Fair. their half - mystic assertions " -in the restlessness that carried them off from " good homes " to become street people or made them take to the road in droves in their microbuses ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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