What are you reading?

...an interesting article from the Dispatch.

The God Gap Helps Explain a 'Seismic Shift' in American Politics
The most important religious divide isn't between right and left, but between left and left.

(https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-most-important-religious-divide)

Thank you for sharing the article, Peter, like Rusty said, it is very interesting. It poses many observations that deserve thought, preferably while smoking a cigar.

@silvermouse said:
Source:
Association for Psychological Science
Summary:
New research finds that people given advice by top performers thought that it helped them more, even though it usually didn't.

https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211054089

Does anyone else feel intellectual challenged when checking out @silvermouses reading material?

Pretty interesting book

“Twisted Prey” by John Sanford.

https://ia801807.us.archive.org/8/items/lilly-john-c-programming-and-metaprogramming-in-the-human-biocomputer/Lilly John C Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer.pdf

Golden Prey John Sandford.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-your-time-is-up-israeli-forces-kill-terrorist-leader-attack-islamic-jihad-in-gaza

"Accompanying this vitriol and anomie, it would seem, is a widespread lack of scepticism toward one’s own political beliefs. Some people are not just confident, but absolutely, 100 per cent certain that their views about how to order society are optimal. For these people, extremism and animosity might seem to be the only logical route. The philosopher of science Karl Popper went so far as to argue that absolute certainty is the foundational component of totalitarianism: if one is sure that one’s political philosophy will lead to the best possible future for humankind, all manner of terrible acts become justifiable in service of the greater good."

https://psyche.co/ideas/popper-was-right-about-the-link-between-certainty-and-extremism

@Rdp77 said:
So does his certainty on the subject make him an extremist?🤔

I am certain it does.

@Hobbes86 said:

Are you planning to read all the Sackett books?

I had a buddy with everything
L'amour had written made for a good summer.

@genareddog said:
Have a collection of leather bound Louis L'amour books.

My mom and dad have a bunch like that as well. They look real nice!