7 years

[Joe Allonby]

If they get you asking the wrong questions...

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:37 AM, rusty <wasted at thingmote.com> wrote:

> "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
>
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