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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Binary Thinking and its Blind Spots

In “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” Arendt wrote that “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” Daniel Kahneman’s “Dual Process Theory” identifies two cognitive systems of the human mind: System 1 is... Continue reading