Soren Kierkegaard said it a bit differently because President Trump wasn’t around but he got it right.
Another way to be fooled is to ignorantly refuse to even learn what’s true. Liberals practice that mistake quite a bit.
Richard Dawkins chose “delusion” for the title of his book about why people persist in believing in gods. I think Jane Austen preferred “willful self-deception”.
Doublethink comes from George Orwell’s 1984; accepting contradictions and falsehoods as a technique of self-indoctrination.
The persistent false psychotic belief regarding president Trump is delusion. Then there is the person obstinately adhering to his beliefs in traditional customs and ideas which describes a mumpsimus.
Richard Dawkins chose “delusion” for the title of his book about why people persist in believing in gods. I think Jane Austen preferred “willful self-deception”.
The persistent false psychotic belief regarding president Trump is delusion. Then there is the person obstinately adhering to his beliefs in traditional customs and ideas which describes a mumpsimus.
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