DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 hours agoWhy are some people defending billionaires and corporations?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up11file-text
arrow-up11imageWhy are some people defending billionaires and corporations?lemmy.mlDependentFeature3028@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square19linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKynsey@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 hours agoIronically American Revolutionary Thomas Paine in his Common Sense said something that explains this quite well, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,[…] Time makes more converts than reason.”
minus-squareJuice@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 hours agoI gotta read some Paine, great quote. I keep having conversations about how society changes today, hopefully it isn’t just a local phenomenon
Ironically American Revolutionary Thomas Paine in his Common Sense said something that explains this quite well, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,[…] Time makes more converts than reason.”
I gotta read some Paine, great quote. I keep having conversations about how society changes today, hopefully it isn’t just a local phenomenon