DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 18 hours agoWhy are some people defending billionaires and corporations?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1153arrow-down1imageWhy are some people defending billionaires and corporations?lemmy.mlDependentFeature3028@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKynsey@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 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-up2·6 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