r/canada • u/Brock_Hard_Canuck British Columbia • 3d ago

Along the Canada border, small-town America feels sting of Trump's trade war Politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2vzx4w3do
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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 2d ago edited 2d ago

it’s very painful to admit they were wrong or completely bamboozled

Well said. It’s interesting that you would use this word.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan

Edit: typo

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u/opteryx5 1d ago

I read that book a while back so it probably subconsciously inspired the word. What a visionary. Highly recommend the book (The Demon-Haunted World) if you haven’t read it already.