"Increasing numbers of people today reject reasoning as a fool's game that only cloaks the machinations of power. Others think they have a special access to truth that exempts them from questioning, like a draft deferment."
"It is always possible to find proximate historical causes of these upsurges in the irrational—war, economic collapse, social change. But doing so can distract us from recognizing that the ultimate source lies deeper, in ourselves and in the world itself."
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