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amethystzephyr [S] 5 points ago +5 / -0

"It's easier to fool a person than to convince them that they have been fooled."

  • Mark Twain
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tholins 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yup.

This is why cults can be so successful.

I heard a great quote from somebody who left Scientology - “you trap yourself.” Once you start buying into a particular extreme and false worldview, you have to excuse reality in order to stay in it, and you do it willingly.

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amethystzephyr [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

With a little help from Edward Bernays and Monarch Programming, of course.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe