7 years

[rusty]

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled
long
enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer
interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s
simply
too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.
Once you
give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old
bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones arise." - Carl Sagan