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  1. The Nattering Naybob

    BDC – your not an idiot, it is a system of trust, a confidence game. The confidence people have in their beliefs can never be taken as a measure of the quality of evidence.  Those beliefs are only a measure of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct. If needful things believe, then it is so, and needful things can be easily led or misled. 

    Times of fast change and transition breed uncertainty, think of when I was just a little younger, the gold rush.  When rapid change occurs, and that does not have to be technological, such as war, revolution, political upheaval, there is a sense of unease and fear in the air. 

    The talking monkeys need to believe, and embrace that which can explain their world, is as pervasive as it is strong.  Look at Musk, he doesn't force, threaten or steal.  Making his investors complicit in their own undoing, as they give him money willingly. 

    The oldest con in the book is selling hope, redemption and salvation. Its what houses of worship are built upon. Needful things indeed, Leland Gaunt Out.



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