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“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

Wells Might Culture Belief Common Demand Illusion Contemporary Common Sense Pretending Systematic Fluffy

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.”

Thinking I Can Real Helping Age Culture Loneliness Illusion Connections Access Instant Popular Culture Real Connection

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.”

Needs Problem Culture Love Is Solutions Illusion Phantoms Need Love

Book:The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

Source: The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

“Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.”

Thinking Culture Responsibility Illusion Taking Responsibility

Author:Terence McKenna

“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.”

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”

Important Moments Reality Past Culture Felt Realizing Memories Consciousness Illusion Expectations Present Moment Illusion Of Time

Author:Alan Watts