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Alex Danco — On Self-Delusion, Sancho Panza, Safe Words & Seinfeld (EP.156)
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The Importance of Self-Defeating
Very, very smart people are actually much better at diluting themselves than maybe not so bright people because what happens is much more practice but also they build better stories. They steal man their own fantasy and hallucination to the point where the indoctrinators themselves are deeply indoctrinated and then they go and spread it everywhere else. The incredible skill and craft within which people do this. It sort of makes me wonder if like this is actually something that people were more aware of centuries ago because we were not yet lying to ourselves that we did not do this. I don't know. There are definitely interpersonal phenomena that we have gotten dumber about. No question. This is on the generally interesting
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