Superstitions

Feb 10, 2021

Superstitions # People believe what they want to. Charismatic leaders use the power of persuasion to beguile people’s minds into religious dogma or political creeds. W.H. Auden has a beautiful line in The Shield of Achilles: “They (soldiers) marched away enduring a belief Whose logic brought them, somewhere else, to grief.” Rational people can rationalize or justify almost anything. We are good at self-deception. All ideologies can be self-serving and delusional. ...