Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: "“People desire certainty,” Doug Casey once observed to me, when discussing a ...
"“People desire certainty,” Doug Casey once observed to me, when discussing a related subject, and that’s exactly so. If we’re uncertain during troubled times, we’ll instantly jump at the opportunity to put a single face to the problem, to blame one individual for whatever is troubling us.
"This is evidenced by the presentation of photos of Lee Harvey Oswald and Osama bin Laden, mere hours after major events, as the certain culprits. They were immediately accepted, without any question, by a people desperately seeking certainty."
–Jeff Thomas
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-all-important-doorman/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20desire%20certainty,desperately%20seeking%20certainty.
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