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Unmodern Man

May 2, 2019 / 3 minutes of reading

An Unlikely Topic Highlighting a Modern Problem My attention this week has been drawn to “The True Believer”#1 by Eric Hoffer, 1951. In the book, Hoffer (a stevedore in San Francisco) discusses the rise of mass movements. I don’t normally study such things, but what caught my attention was this quote describing radicalised people as: …

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Fake News: Lies your brain tells you

January 29, 2019 / 5 minutes of reading

Friends I was in court last week, for the case of a man who allegedly hit me in his car last year when I was cycling. The defence lawyer shocked me with a very valuable lesson. After I had described the car coming DOWN the hill behind me and turning LEFT straight across the front …

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