Notebook: “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” --Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, 1921 https://amzn.to/36F790h #literature #madness_of_crowds #cancel_culture #minds

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