Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds:
“As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding,” Sloman and Fernbach write. And here our dependence on other minds reinforces the problem. If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion is also baseless. When I talk to Tom and he decides he agrees with me, his opinion is also baseless, but now that the three of us concur we feel that much more smug about our views. If we all now dismiss as unconvincing any information that contradicts our opinion, you get, well, the Trump Administration.
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Elements of a Durable Civilization:
It’s the combination of fast and slow that makes the whole system resilient. Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast absorbs shocks, slow integrates shocks. Fast is discontinuous, slow continuous. Fast affects slow with accrued innovation and occasional revolution. Slow controls fast with constraint and constancy.
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Now I See You Tried To Correct Many Things
Gentle Waves
我刚坐下来，列车就启动了。车厢震动，站台退去。我把身体整个沉进座椅里，深呼一口气，放松下来。走道上还有几位乘客在寻找自己的座位，一位乘务员检查着行李架上的物品。旁边座位上的男人靠在小桌板上，手里玩着两个手机，坐在前面的小女孩趴在椅背上好奇地看着我，然后被她母亲拉回去坐下。我感到一阵释然，觉得一下子轻松了不少，这几天一直烦扰我的那些事，好像都躲到其它什么地方去了。我手里把玩着药盒，午后刚过的阳光打在棕色盒盖上，药片在透明的盒子里翻滚旋转。我把头靠在窗户上，看着窗外，近处迅速掠过的树林，远方久久不动的白云。
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