Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
Timur Kuranamazon.com
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
dramatic example is Communism in the former Soviet bloc, which lasted in part because people were unaware of how large a share of the population despised the regime. As people became aware of what others actually thought, they were emboldened to say what they believed, and to act accordingly.
Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition
Dès l’Ancien Régime, les intellectuels se distinguent par des biais qui peuvent se révéler dangereux pour la liberté : le goût pour les systèmes abstraits déconnectés du réel, la radicalisation qui fait préférer la révolution à la réforme, la fascination pour la violence.
Nicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
When two tribes have lost all trust in the other, every action by one side tends to be regarded by the other as evidence of the most malign intentions. At which point, it would be irrational for you not to interpret it as a dire threat,
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
The fact that needed to be explained, however, was failure: the painfully visible gap between the institutions’ claims of competence and their actual performance. The gap, I maintain, was a function of the limits of human knowledge. It had always been there. What changed was the public’s awareness of it.