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536: Julia Galef | Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Dreyfus Affair
The capacity to fool ourselves knows no bounds, really, right? I mean, we can always convince ourselves of something, and often we don't really know that we're doing that. And the book starts with the Dreyfus affair. So essentially, there was this crumpled up memo that was discovered in a waste basket in the German embassy. But it was found by a French woman who was working as a spy for the French. She pulled it out of the waste basket and brought it back to the general staff of the French army. It revealed that someone in their ranks in the French army, very high up, was leaking military secrets to the Germans.
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