📚 There is a phrase from a book I read in my adolescence that’s just been bouncing around in my head the past few weeks:
People are stupid. They can be made to believe any lie because either they want to believe it's true or because they are afraid it's true.
Wizard's First Rule - chapter 36, page 397
Locally speaking, I always understood this to be true but it’s rather remarkable and horrifying to see it happen before your eyes…