“Hypocrisy and dissimulation are what keeps social systems strong; it is intellectual honesty that destroys them.”
Theodore Dalrymple- The New Vichy Syndrome p. 26.
If the rationality quotes are intended to illustrate rationality, rather than themselves necessarily be rational, I think this is a fine quote.
This is true when the social systems in question are built on dishonest foundations. Observing whether or not intellectual honesty has this effect on a system has predictive value wrt the eventual fate of the society employing the system.
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“Hypocrisy and dissimulation are what keeps social systems strong; it is intellectual honesty that destroys them.”
Theodore Dalrymple- The New Vichy Syndrome p. 26.
If the rationality quotes are intended to illustrate rationality, rather than themselves necessarily be rational, I think this is a fine quote.
This is true when the social systems in question are built on dishonest foundations. Observing whether or not intellectual honesty has this effect on a system has predictive value wrt the eventual fate of the society employing the system.
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