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Amanda Montell
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in Baltimore, MD, The United States
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April 2019
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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2021
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
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2019
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
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2024
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"I listened to the audiobook in one go and it was an enjoyable blend of explanation of cognitive biases in a personal and current cultural context.
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"Great book! Highly recommend to anyone interested in learning more about cognitive biases! (And who doesn’t wanna commit to Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman which is yes much more detailed but also much more academic and denser)
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| Okay I may be ~cognitively biased~ but... I poured my heart, brain (and other organs!) into this book and feel terribly proud of it. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to write it, and it's bittersweet that the process is over. Thank you all ...more | |
“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“It’s not that smart people aren’t capable of believing in cultish things; instead, says Shermer, it’s that smart people are better at “defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“words are the medium through which belief systems are manufactured, nurtured, and reinforced, their fanaticism fundamentally could not exist without them.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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