Believing Bullshit: How Intellectual Black Holes Trap Smart People
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law — a systems-level examination of how perception, power, and incentives shape modern life.
Rather than asking why people fall for bad ideas, this book explains how certain belief systems are built to defend themselves against challenge. By analyzing the mechanisms that make beliefs self-sealing, the book reveals why debunking often fails and why confidence and complexity are so easily…
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