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“When enough people share a delusion, it loses its status as a psychosis and gets a religious tax exemption instead.”
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Another evolutionary thought article. Also seems to focus on our lack of reason.
"Human reason is a faculty evolved to help us survive in certain contexts, rather than reach the truth on every occasion, and historically we have rarely been challenged to work things out at such abstract levels."
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