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troydthompson · 23 days
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Professor Kahneman saw such a dynamic as “angry science,” which he described as a “nasty world of critiques, replies and rejoinders,” and “as a contest, where the aim is to embarrass.” As Professor Kahneman put it, those who live in that nasty world offer “a summary caricature of the target position, refute the weakest argument in that caricature, and declare the total destruction of the adversary’s position.” In his account, angry science is “a demeaning experience.” That dynamic might sound familiar, particularly in our politics.
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troydthompson · 6 months
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troydthompson · 7 months
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troydthompson · 7 months
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“I’ve always believed that gender is like language — it’s as infinitely broad and enormous as language is. There’s an infinite amount of things you can do with language, to make new things and mold it to your own wishes.”
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troydthompson · 9 months
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to speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.
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troydthompson · 9 months
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We were always on edge, dogged by danger and the anxiety that if we had something even for a moment, it could be taken away.
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troydthompson · 9 months
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The very fact that you have looked at the problem straight in the eye means that you are on your way up and out of it.
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troydthompson · 10 months
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Patience is the only thing that defeats anger.
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troydthompson · 10 months
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troydthompson · 11 months
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He was known as a man who would listen thoughtfully to all sides, whose Pyrrhonian principle was to lend his ears to everyone and his mind to no one, while maintaining his own integrity through it all.
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troydthompson · 11 months
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"Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself."
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troydthompson · 11 months
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"It's been interesting that for some people, when a thing they want to have happen doesn't happen, that they take it personally."
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