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Weirding 'Givens' 

 

“When it comes to our knowledge and opinions, though, we tend to stick to our guns. Psychologists call seizing and freezing. We favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long before our bones.

(Adam Grant, Think Again, 2021) 

 

 

"It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety.

 

... The system's power does not come from its truth but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true." (Mark Carney, Davos 2026)

Weirdings

Weirding 'Givens' 

 

“When it comes to our knowledge and opinions, though, we tend to stick to our guns. Psychologists call seizing and freezing. We favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long before our bones.

(Adam Grant, Think Again, 2021) 

 

 

"It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety.

 

... The system's power does not come from its truth but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true." (Mark Carney, Davos 2026)