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How does ‘common knowledge’ shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are true.

Jamie Q. Roberts

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

‘Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts,’ Joseph Heller once said – ‘and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?’