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People Cannot Do What They Cannot Think, And They Cannot Think What They Cannot Say.

We Have More Than Two Options. A Critique Of Reason Does Not Have To Be A Call For The Return Of Superstition And Arbitrary Power. Our Problems Do Not Lie With Reason Itself But With Our Obsessive Treatment Of Reason As An Absolute Value. Certainly It Is One Of Our Qualities, But It Functions Positively Only When Balanced And Limited By The Others.

The Best Defence [for A Democracy, For The Public Good] Is Aggressiveness, The Aggressiveness Of The Involved Citizen. We Need To Reassert That Slow, Time-consuming, Inefficient, Boring Process That Requires Our Involvement; It Is Called 'being A Citizen.' The Public Good Is Not Something That You Can See. It Is Not Static. It Is A Process. It Is The Process By Which Democratic Civilizations Build Themselves.

We All Need A Bit Of Self-delusion. It Gets Us Over The Difficult Spots.

It Is Undoubtedly Easier To Believe In Absolutes, Follow Blindly, Mouth Received Wisdom. But That Is Self-betrayal.