How the information overdose turns ignorance into fear, fear into hatred and hatred into violence
Nearly nine centuries ago, the Cordoban philosopher Ibn Rushd condensed the darkest geography of the human soul into a single sentence. Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred and hatred ends in violence. The equation, formulated by Averroes, remains valid because it describes a mechanism humanity repeats with a fidelity bordering on ritual, generation … CONTINUE READING →
