CHAPTER 22 BAD FAITH: THE NEW ATHEIST SALVATION

CHAPTER 22 BAD FAITH: THE NEW ATHEIST SALVATION
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HEBRON, WEST BANK, FEBRUARY 2008
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Mohammed Herbawi and his close friend and soccer buddy Shadi Zghayer

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suicide bombing mission

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Hamas took responsibility

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interview friends and families
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members of the same Hamas neighborhood soccer team

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neither rich nor poor

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planned to attend, the local Palestine Polytechnic

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She was divorced
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our society respects martyrs.”
Note:IL SENTIMENTO DEI VICINI

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“I’m not religious and I respect them.
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right cause,

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“If only I would have known, I am against it, against it.”
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“You took your rifle and went. You blew up your belt and burned. So as the son that they killed would rise up again.”
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“People don’t have much trouble finding one another for actions like this.
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THE END OF FAITH AND OTHER PULP FICTION
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terrorism and the Future of Reason,1 Sam Harris,
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tender religious sensibilities of others.
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the destructive nature of religion
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Dan Dennett’s

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Christopher Hitchens’s

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Richard Dawkins’s

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secular moderation toward religion
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I only want to introduce some common misconceptions about suicide bombers
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“we can no longer ignore the fact that billions of our neighbors believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom,
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(Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, and Dennett) see science at the front line
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Islam in particular, and religion in general.
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Suicide bombers are not only Islamic or religiously motivated.
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Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka,
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secular movement

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most suicide bombings occurred in Lebanon,
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(Syrian Nationalist Party, Lebanese Communist Party, Lebanese Ba’ath Party).

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isn’t much precedent in Islamic tradition
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the atheist anarchist movement
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parents who would not have done anything in their power to stop their child
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one regularly hears that Spartan and samurai mothers smiled
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What are they going to say when first informed of their child’s death? That it was senseless and stupid?
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in private, “I am happy” or even “I am proud.”
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“Seventy percent of the inmates of France’s jails, for instance, are Muslims. The Muslims of Western Europe are not atheists
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religious people in general, and Muslims in particular, tend to do more terrible things
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Muslims in America tend to be slightly more religious than non-Muslims, but are underrepresented in U.S. prisons
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underemployment, poor schooling, and political marginalization.
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the more someone is exposed to Muslim religious education, the less likely he or she is to enter prison.
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In the Encyclopedia of Wars,9 Charles Phillips and Alexander Axelrod survey 1,763 violent conflicts throughout history, of which only 123 (7 percent) were religious.
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in recent times,
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I see no evidence that with religion banished, science will reduce violence
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Nor do I see evidence that religion necessarily contributes more to unhappiness

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to lessen social distance within a group
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greater trust of fellow citizens even outside the group
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less educated and poorer a society is, the more religious it tends to be.
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religion is an immature form of human understanding
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materialism is a monumental barrier to spirituality
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Jamaica,
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intellectual creativity and the expansion of human freedoms and opportunities.
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Islam also stops violence.
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there’s no evidence that science education stops terrorism.
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Diego Gambetta,
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Atheism doesn’t stop intolerance:
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Ara Norenzayan

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atheists are just as likely as religious believers to be intolerant of other people’s beliefs
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Steven Weinberg,

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“religion is an insult to human dignity.

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for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”
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evil people to do good things, it takes religion.”
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DAWKINS’S DELUSION: THE SLAVISH MIND
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Dan Dennett dubs the Brights
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studiously avoid science
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slavish gullibility of jihadis,
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do what they do because they really believe what they were taught in their religious schools;
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none of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers or thirty-odd Madrid train-bomb conspirators attended a madrassah,
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madrassahs

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terrorist groups rarely draw from their students
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grown people seek religion because they miss their fathers.
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they slavishly obey any instructions
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None.
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such as Harry Potter
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insidious affect on rationality,

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“About once every hundred years some wiseacre gets up and tries to banish the fairy tale,” wrote C. S. Lewis
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giving children a false impression
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The fantasies did not deceive me; the school stories did.”
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RELIGION ISN’T CHILDISH SCIENCE
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Copernicus,

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earth orbited the sun.
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Galileo Galilei

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Enlightenment unshackled scientific thinking from lingering religious control,

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ILLUMINISMO

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separation was at best a temporary armistice,
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to provide a unified theory of the world
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religious adults have very different mind-sets from those of children,
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concentrating more on the moral dimensions
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Science aims to reveal how facts are reliably coordinated
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Religion, by contrast, is less interested in how the universe has always been than in how our tiny piece of it ought to be,
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From a scientific perspective, human beings are accidental
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But doesn’t religion impede science, and vice versa? Not necessarily.
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Catholic Church acknowledged the factual plausibility of Copernicus, Galileo,

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Pope John Paul II apologized

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“People have known for years that you can have the Earth circle around the sun and still believe in God.”
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THE REALIST ILLUSION
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Science is guided by a faith in reason that always flies ahead of the facts
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the claim by Sam Harris and others “that in ethics, as in physics, there are truths waiting to be discovered,
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Human rights weren’t discovered, but invented for social engineering
Note:TESI AUTORE

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Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson.
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Monotheism created the concept of a single humanity, worthy of improvement and salvation.
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Ideas of “self-evident,” “natural,” and “human” rights are anything but inherently self-evident or natural in the history of our species.
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The American and French republics began to render real the fictions
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common both to religious dogmatists and new-atheist
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OVERBLOWING IDEOLOGY

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Harris’s suggestion in The End of Faith that a total war on Islam may be unavoidable.
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cause of the current global wave of terrorism, then?
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bits of all of them,
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Throughout human history, it is commitment to a religious or transcendental dream that ultimately sustains cooperation and competition between large groups,
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kill and die for others who aren’t genetic kin.
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religion has helped to promote tyranny and rebellion against oppression,
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inspire monumental works of creativity and of stunning stupidity,
CREATIVITÀ E OTTUSITÀ

Meditazioni sul contrattualismo. Con un tentativo di riabilitazione

Alcuni equilibri ottimali richiedono un atto di forza per realizzarsi.

Passare da un ottimo locale a un ottimo globale puoi chiedere un altro di forza.

La storia reale della nascita degli Stati, ovvero attraverso conquiste e schiavitù, descrive il posizionamento su un ottimo locale.

La storia ideale degli Stati Ovvero la loro emersione mediante un contratto descrive un ottimo globale.

Il problema dello Stato può essere visto ex-ante o ex-post. Può uno stato essere giudicato conveniente da persone che vivono nello stato di natura? Oppure, può uno stato essere considerato conveniente da persone che dallo Stato di natura sono già passate in modo violento allo Stato politico?

Chi vive nello stato di natura non ha mai sperimentato lo Stato politico. Chi vive nello stato politico non ha mai sperimentato lo stato di natura.

Tupi Guaranì. Indiani d'America.  La fuga dallo Stato visto come il male . Pierre Clastres: la socité contre l' état. Si ubbidisce al capo caso per caso. Sono società in cui si lavora 2 ore al giorno, intesi. La relazione comando obbedienza è aborrita da questi popoli!

Conclusione il tipo di politica che adottiamo è una droga. Ha effetti di dipendenza. Se è così la teoria contrattualistica perde di senso.

L'organizzazione politica e quindi non intenzionale. Weber vince su Hobbes, Rousseau ecc.

ORECCHIO BIONICO

Riccardo Mariani

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Il buon ascoltatore di musica non deve dar peso solo all'estetica ma anche all'economia. In altri termini, non deve restare passivo ma "investire" razionalmente sul suo orecchio in funzione del contesto.

Se domani un regime autoritario imponesse l’ascolto esclusivo di Mozart sarebbe razionale specializzarsi su questo autore. Se domani tutte le musiche del mondo fossero a portata di click sarebbe razionale puntare su un orecchio “flessibile”.

Lo scenario attuale: le musiche dell’intero pianeta, non solo sono tutte a portata di click, ma siccome lo sono già da tempo, hanno iniziato a mescolarsi tra loro.

Strategia razionale: costruirsi un orecchio in grado di apprezzare il meglio di ogni genere e le zuppe confezionate con quegli ingredienti.

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8 BLAME

8   BLAME Blamestorming and the Moral of the Financial Crisis
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Persian Empire

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How can a video game trick me into thinking that it is a person? I went into a store and paid money for a disk, which I stuck into a box of bolts attached to a video screen.
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Our brains are wired to look for agency everywhere.
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HOW WE SEE THE WORLD
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“What we thought was hard, things like playing chess, turned out to be easy, and what we thought was easy, things like recognizing faces or objects, which a child can do, that turned out to be much harder.”
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Have you looked for hidden pictures in the wallpaper of your childhood bedroom, or faces in the clouds?
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That’s your pattern recognition software calling order out of chaos.
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What I described isn’t exactly what you saw, is it? You probably saw a white triangle
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In our natural environment,
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“Coincidence avoidance”
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If you show people an animated movie of one ball running into another and stopping, while the other ball rolls away, they will say that the first ball made the second one move.
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Albert Michotte
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People described balls on a screen as “hitting,” “chasing,” and “following”
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“We also seek out patterns in events,” says the scientist Bruce Hood in his recent book, SuperSense. “Our mind design forces us to see organization
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when unexpected disasters do occur, our intuitions push us to see a person and a plan, rather than some complex impersonal force. We start looking, in short, for someone to blame.
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THE “TRUTH” BEHIND THE CALAMITY
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A few years back, I found myself embroiled in a long e-mail exchange with a 9/11 Truther.
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government is neither evil nor competent enough to have orchestrated the biggest terrorist attack
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“Okay, so it’s a controlled demolition,” says Asner.
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Controlled demolitions cannot be engineered and rigged in a day. It takes months.
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no one reported noticing a team of demolition experts doing any such thing.
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It wouldn’t have been that hard for the government to pull it off, came the response.
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By now I was muttering to myself and kicking my desk as I typed. I replied that I didn’t understand why explosives would have caused the site to burn for months.
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His views were essentially unfalsifiable;
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Commercial airliners simply could not have generated either the force, or the heat, needed to bring those buildings down.
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refueling tankers, or perhaps cruise missiles.
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distract your eye
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high explosives, possibly placed there years before.
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“What’s so interesting is that the Truthers never do this: picking up the phone, talking to actual experts—they
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how the claims were assembled in the first place. They ranged from basic misunderstanding to seizing on early erroneous reporting.”
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Instead of being happy to learn that their government probably hadn’t orchestrated
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I KNOW THERE’S A VILLAIN IN THERE SOMEWHERE
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According to this theory, easy money from the Federal Reserve, and massive government backing for the mortgage market, caused a credit boom that drove markets to unsustainable heights.
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Then there were the Moochers: people who took too much risk because they knew that if push came to shove, the government would bail them out.
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For starters, many of the banks that went bust did so in part because they had been “eating their own toxic waste”:
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Spain, for example, has no Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac to lend
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And yet Spain’s housing bubble was even worse
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crazy free market ideologues persuaded Congress and the president to deregulate
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stealing from the poor and gullible by selling outrageously oversize mortgages to financial naïfs
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This narrative, like the conservative version, has its share of problems. For one thing, the financial naïfs weren’t all that naïve. “During the great housing bubble and bust, journalists spent a fair amount of time searching for the perfect mortgage victim,” writes David Leonhardt,
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Progressives have nominated a few regulations—notably, the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999, which repealed one of the last remnants of the 1933 Glass–Steagall Act, a ban on commercial banks owning investment banks. If the crisis had originated in hybrid firms like JPMorgan, which had both commercial banking and investment banking arms, this might be more convincing. But it didn’t. JPMorgan was fine—in
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ALTRO PROBLEMA

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investment banks like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch—the
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Neither of these narratives is all wrong—there
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What’s even more striking is that at bottom, they are the same story: everything used to be great, then some greedy fool changed the rules and ruined everything.
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Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, and Paul Willen of the Fed
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The financial crisis happened for the stupidest reason imaginable—no one thought that housing prices would fall as much as they did.

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LA CAUSA REALE

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they didn’t believe it would happen.
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price credit risk
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Bankers were hardly the only people who thought they were geniuses who could turn guesses into gold. Entire academic careers were founded on what we used to call “the great moderation”: the idea that improved management of the money supply and the banking system by the Federal Reserve had essentially tamed the business cycle
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FINANCIAL GROUPIDITY
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they had no idea this was coming.
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guilty of insufficient imagination:
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people basically shrugged and said, “If it gets that bad, we’re all so completely screwed that there’s no point planning for it.”
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bad positive feedback loops:
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Vernon Smith,
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Smith and his team were looking to see how prices emerged, but they found something unexpected: they got bubbles. Every time.
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Only when you run it a third time do people start recognizing what is happening, and stop blowing bubbles.
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they underestimated the probability that the bubble would pop.
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they lost so much money in the crash.
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Fuld, the head of Lehman, is reported to have lost a billion dollars, and was forced to sell off his $25 million New York City apartment
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Dick Fuld was forced out of the top slot at Lehman in a humiliating debacle, and has lost most of the wealth he gained over the course of his career in finance. That’s not fun, even if you’re still rich.
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how often do you see it advanced in an op-ed, or pushed by a talking head on television news?
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THE AGENCY DETECTION MACHINE
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Bruce Hood,
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There are no random events
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Things are caused by intention.

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Complexity cannot happen spontaneously
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“agency-detection device.”
Note:IL NOME DEL MECANISMO CHE SI ATTIVA

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One night not long ago, I spent five minutes trying to sneak up on my coat rack. I was alone in the house, and from the top of my stairs, the coat rack looked terrifyingly like a burglar surveying the booty.
Note:SAPETE CSA MI È CAPITATO IERI?

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It is probably not very dangerous to mistake a rock for a saber-toothed tiger, but it is very dangerous indeed to mistake a tiger for a rock.
Note:L ANTENATO

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Walter Olson calls “blamestorming.”
Note:LO STUDIOSO CHE BATTEZZA

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Why do we need to do this?
Note:TROVARE UN CAPRO

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the number of people who think that by suggesting it, I am doing something reprehensible.
Note:CHI PROPONE LA CASUALITÀ È COMPLICE

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we tend to see culprits rather than complexity.
Note:RIBADIAMO

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look for intention instead of randomness,

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causation instead of chaos.
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If nature abhors a vacuum, human reason abhors a coincidence.
Note:MOTTO

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parents with autistic children became convinced that the vaccines their children had been given were causing it. The age at which autism is usually diagnosed is also the age at which kids in most Western countries are going through a heavy vaccination schedule.
Note:ALTRO ESEMPIO

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we also tend to favor small, concrete stories over large ones. “Vaccines cause autism” has a lot more resonance than “some unspecified combination of environmental pollutants, infectious agents, and/or genetics is causing autism.”
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no one wants to be at the mercy of the universe.
Note:VOGLIA DI CONTROLLO

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a universe where bad things sometimes happen
Note:L ALTERNATIVA AL CATTIVO

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THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL
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TO CROSS STREET PUSH BUTTON
Note:ILLUSIONE CHE TRANQUILLIZZA

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Longtime New Yorkers sort of suspected that they didn’t do anything. And still, they pushed. Dinner parties were riven by debates worthy of the Reformation over those buttons
Note:IL PULSANTE DEI SEMAFORI

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people who had been pushing those buttons for decades swore that the light turned after.
Note:HIHIHI

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the buttons had been disconnected decades before.
Note:LA CONFERMA DEL NYT

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continued toward the button
Note:MA LA GENTE...

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“Just in case,”
Note:LA GIUSTIFICA

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Ellen Langer has dubbed the illusion of control:
Note:IL BHATTESIMO

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less stress if they believe
Note:BENEFICI

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low-ranking civil servants are much more likely to die
Note:I SUBORDINATI CREPANO PRIMA...NN CONTROLLANO

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how much control you had over your workday,
Note:VARIABILE CHIAVE.... L IMPREVISTO TI AMMAZZA

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Finding someone to blame
Note:CI FA BENE MA NN RISOLVE

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SCAPEGOATS AND THE RUSH TO JUDGMENT
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DNA testing
Note:LA SCOPERTA DI MOLTI ERRORI GIUDIZIARI

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stranger rapes, the assault or murder
Note:PIÙ UN CRIMINE È ORROBILE PIÙ CRESCONO LE POSSIBILITÀ DI ERRORE

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lot of pressure to find the perpetrator.
Note:CAUSA PROB DEGLI ERRORI

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Once they’re focused, they stop “looking for suspects”
Note:QUEL CHE SUCCEDE ALL INVTIGATORE

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extraordinarily prone to confirmation bias.
Note:TIPICO

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Why do hard-line law-and-order prosecutors fight so hard against groups like the Innocence Project? The project does DNA testing at its own expense; it costs the taxpayer nothing. And many times they end up affirming the prosecution’s case.
Note:UNA GUERRA INSPIEGABILE

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“It’s staggering how organized they think the world is,”
COME VEDE I CATTIVI IL COMPLOTTISTA

Trionfo dell'ipocrisia

Riccardo Mariani

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Per lo psicologo evoluzionista abbiamo solo un obbiettivo: esercitare il “sesso da riproduzione”. Poiché dedichiamo solo pochi minuti all’anno a queste pratiche, tutto il resto si deve spiegare solo in termini di ipocrisia. Vasto programma.

L’arte è ipocrisia, la scienza è ipocrisia, la scuola è ipocrisia, la politica è ipocrisia, l’economia è ipocrisia… è il trionfo dell’ Homo Hypocritus.

E’ un tipo strano lo psicologo evoluzionista, però, devo ammetterlo, ci aiuta a capire meglio le stranezze di arte, scienza, scuola, politica, economia, eccetera.

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Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead…

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Cintura esplosiva

Riccardo Mariani

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Pensi ai kamikaze con cintura esplosiva e pensi subito al fanatismo religioso. Ma il gruppo più generoso in queste pratiche è quello laico delle Tigri del Tamil (Sri Lanka). Il paese più martoriato dagli attentati suicidi è stato a lungo il Libano, dove agivano fazioni laiche come il Partito Nazionale Siriano, il Partito Comunista Libanese e il Partito Ba’ath.

Cerchi una tradizione e non la trovi nell’islamismo radicale quanto piuttosto nei movimenti atei ed anarchici.

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Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists

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Guerra di religione

Riccardo Mariani

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Nella loro "Enciclopedia della Guerra", Charles Phillips e Alexander Axelrod, hanno classificato 1763 conflitti violenti nel corso della storia, solo 123 (il 7%) avevano natura religiosa.

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