Dec 19 2008

A descriptive sentence about me

From The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon,

Logical minds, accustomed to being convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion when addressing crowds, and the inability of their arguments always surprises them.

I actually read that in Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter, which I’m thoroughly enjoying.