Roy Blount Jr.Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs. This quote shows how people’s minds are affected by what is happening around them. We can easily be fooled by things we read or hear about and soon we depend on those things for our everyday life.
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