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"The vision of the anointed is not simply a vision of the world and its functioning in descriptive terms, but is also a vision of themselves and of their place in the world. Self-congratulation is part of that vision, as is a disdain for the benighted masses who do not share it."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1995

From The Vision of the Anointed

Context: From *The Vision of the Anointed* (1995). Sowell describes the defining psychological feature of the unconstrained vision's adherents — a moral and intellectual self-regard that treats disagreement as evidence of ignorance or bad faith rather than legitimate difference.

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