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*How* people shut down thought because of high-status respectable halos

6 NancyLebovitz 20 October 2016 02:09PM

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/

A detailed look at the belief that high status social structures can be so much better than anything one can think of that there's no point in even trying to think about the details of what to do, and how debilitating this is.

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