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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism, hatred, and persecution, and also the cause of the vulgar pursuit of success as a proof of divine favor.
— Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man (1941)

2w ago

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal, a being of a warrior horde; he is led by a chief and his horde shares a common life. The striking fact about this is the extraordinary ease with which a man identifies himself with a group.

3mo ago

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How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis

The key to effective teamwork is having a single enemy. Now here's something even uglier. The same team-building hostility is heating up over in the enemy's camp. That evil team is getting bigger and stronger because it hates you—and precisely because you're bonding with your own team.

4mo ago

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