Humans, as anthropologists often point out, embrace magical thinking, or mystical explanations for things we do not understand; we need hope in a scary world.
We’re also pretty adept at ignoring things that might undermine the beliefs we use to frame our world. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” the US writer Upton Sinclair noted. The same goes for social status, religion or other parts of our identity.
Gillian Tett , FT
https://www.ft.com/content/216c2e3e-20cc-441d-b7ef-885aec72c6c5
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