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“My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!”

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Bradley Whitford is an American film actor born on October 10, 1959. He is known for his notable roles in television series and films, renowned for his exceptional acting skills. more

“The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world that is our own invention entirely, whether it is on social media or what we choose to absorb. This was very different when I was a kid, like generations before us we were exposed to things that were not entirely on our terms. We had to wrestle with and find the relationship with the world around you. It was literal experience, unlike the form of protracted psychic masturbation that is the digital world we live in.”

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Author:Rick Alverson

“Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.”

Efficiency Idealism

Author:Rick Alverson

“When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and think "there, I'm so irrational!". But your reluctance to sit on a probably rickety chair is not irrational - you think it's irrational because you have a false view of what irrationality is.”

Thinking Past Finding Yourself Irrational Irrationality

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“I don't think we are all irrational every time we fail to see through an argument in a book, but suppose it's true about you. You are still more rational than you think you are. You are irrational in a minor way - believing a misguided theory of the nature of rationality - but rational in a major way - you respond well to probabilistic evidence as you go through the day.”

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Author:Nomy Arpaly

“I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel alienated from the motives for an action - "whatever possessed me to do that?". Note, however, that some people feel alienated from the white hairs that recently appeared on their heads - "who put them there?", they might ask the mirror - but the white hairs are still theirs. Similarly, I might feel alienated from an action or a mental state because it does not fit with my visceral self - image.”

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Author:Nomy Arpaly

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