Private Truths, Public Lies The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

there's an amazing book you should read from the 50s a bit hard to get on amazon it's called private truths public lies ... it's a very simple idea that sometimes in society everybody starts to pretend to believe a lie just because it's the convenient expected thing to do during covid ... the book says it only takes one person or entity to point out the emperor has no clothes.

it's a book by a guy called Timur Kuran, who's a somewhat conservative libertarian professor in Duke, called Private Truths, Public Lies.

Timur Kuran is the author of private truths public lies the social consequences of preference falsification

Timur Koran is an economist and political scientist at Duke University He's the author of private truths public lies the social consequences of preference falsification

Timur Koran is the author of Private Truths, Public Lies, The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification.

I think that's something I remember for like 2016. I think it was a scholar like Timur Kuran had written this long book about how like, you know, before the Berlin Wall fell everyone was like, oh, this is so great. This is so great. And then once it fell over, they're like, actually we hated this the whole entire time, right?