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What this book knows
Crowds go mad—religiously and financially—because narrative always defeats evidence, and contagion spreads fastest when people talk only to each other.
mind-and-cognition
a good story, no matter how analytically deficient, lingers in the mind, resonates emotionally, and persists against ironclad fact
VLA-AC5D0533-RC-007Trump related the story of the 'beautiful child' who developed autism after vaccination—most observers scored the interchange in Trump's favor
VLA-AC5D0533-RC-031what separates delusional crowds from wise ones is the extent of their members' interactions with each other—isolation before judgment preserves accuracy
VLA-AC5D0533-RC-011faith-and-doubt
twenty-two bodies, most wearing red, black, or white capes, found lying in a circle, heads pointed outward—the Solar Temple tragedy
VLA-AC5D0533-RC-006obedience-and-authority
Rothmann performed a sermon in praise of marriage and with the battering rams of his oration broke open the barracks within which their virginity was enclosed
VLA-AC5D0533-RC-049Bockelson elevated the art of the missing Apocalypse to high theater, ordering a suicidal charge then announcing it was only a drill to test their wills
VLA-AC5D0533-RC-055Illuminates
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