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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?

The Next Big Idea

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The Heretics - Is There a Way to Earn Status?

A lot of the people who end up maybe on the wrong side of the truth, and in these cases doing some real harm, fully sincerely believe what they're saying. The brain has, as I said before, it values what do I have to believe in order to instate as my community much more than it values the truth. We don't choose our beliefs like we choose, you know, melons in the supermarket. A belief's going to happen to us. It's a subconscious thing. And I think it's like with these Q and E interviewers: People miss that they sincerely believe the things that they believe is crazy, it might seem.

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