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Gratifying delusions (like that we're in touch with "reality") are so addictive, we tend to hang onto them no matter what they cost us.

Hooked on Snap

Like crack, certainty is something our minds are designed to enjoy and ill-equipped to resist, even when we know it may kill us. Scientific certainty addicts claim that all science is based on solid proofs, on hard facts, or at least on the best available knowledge of the moment. But science itself tells us that this isn't exactly or always true. Read More

Hi Lynn, I think you are a

Hi Lynn, I think you are a genius- your articles really are very witty and fun to read. I have to write a reaction paper on a psych article every week for class and you are a wonderful contributor to my works cited page.
Thank you

P.s. this article helped me clarify the root of my universal unrest; my perpetual frustration with the polar opposite world and, of course, confusion from my own inability to settle with those aforementioned certainties. I have thought of this unrest as a maturity and a mutation, but mostly have come to terms with it as a mindful outlook. I suggest this mindfullness leads to a kind of high-not much unlike the certainty high of a darwanist or creationist-(because, like them, i am certain.) I am Certain that I am certain about absolutely nothing.

Hi Lynn, I think you are a

Hi Lynn, I think you are a genius- your articles really are very witty and fun to read. I have to write a reaction paper on a psych article every week for class and you are a wonderful contributor to my works cited page.
Thank you

P.s. this article helped me clarify the root of my universal unrest; my perpetual frustration with the polar opposite world and, of course, confusion from my own inability to settle with those aforementioned certainties. I have thought of this unrest as a maturity and a mutation, but mostly have come to terms with it as a mindful outlook. I suggest this mindfullness leads to a kind of high-not much unlike the certainty high of a darwanist or creationist-(because, like them, i am certain.) I am Certain that I am certain about absolutely nothing. Then again I have no fucking idea.

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Lynn Phillips is the author of Self-Loathing for Beginners. She has written (sometimes as "Maggie Cutler") for a wide variety of publications, from The Nation to The New York Times's Magazine.

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