Great Minds are Greater than you think

Reading up on legacies of great economists and I realized how often such great minds put both sides of the arguments in their works.

That got me thinking of how confirmation bias really makes people interpret the same work so differently. Imagine the works of Marx and Smith, both presenting counter arguments for their primary ideas. Remembering how Confirmation Bias polarizes strong convictions, it is no surprise that the Intellectual Honesty these men has put into their work to present as impartial a picture possible has worked against them.

Of course controlling knowledge is something very difficult to do, in fact the more you control it, by virtues of supply and demand, the more you increase its value to the emotional respondent.

Its quite a learning experience worth contemplating how much complexity affects us.

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