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We have reached the stage where someone offering a contrasting opinion is viewed as deliberately trying to wind up others.

if you surround yourself with voices that echo similar opinions to those you're feeding out, they will be reinforced in your mind as mainstream, to the point that it can distort your perception of what is the general consensus.

Acquiring the habit of overcoming habitual perception is one process that brings engineering and the arts together.

engineering sometimes works not by satisfying recognized needs but by creating the needs it satisfies.

empathy is what literature, above all, is good at teaching