If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
P: Today one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you’re standing?
B: You answered . . .
P: I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act.
B: You who speak languages, you are such liars.
(excerpt from Xenocide by Orson Scott Card)
The Tinkerbell effect describes those things that exist only because people believe in them. The effect is named for Tinker Bell, the fairy in the play Peter Pan who is revived from near death by the belief of the audience.
Claimed cases include:
- monetary system
- civil society
- the “rule of law”
- deities
- authority
40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist
3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
4. There are no facts, only interpretations.
5. Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.
