We’re slipping backwards. The steady progress which Western societies had been making toward empiricism, rationalism and tolerance is going into reverse.
We are becoming more tribal, more intuitive, more impervious to evidence. And oddly, it’s happening, not as a result of war or poverty, but during a sustained rise in living standards.
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