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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

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"The constrained vision sees the evils of the world as deriving from the limited and biased nature of man himself — and therefore sees the social challenge as being to make the best of the possibilities which exist within that constraint, rather than to try to change human nature."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1987

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"In the unconstrained vision, human nature is not fixed but is capable of being changed by social institutions and social policies. If human beings are capable of improvement — even of perfection — then the question of how to design the best society, with the best social institutions, is a much more open-ended question than if human nature is treated as a given constraint."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1987

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A Conflict of Visions

person Sowell, Thomas event 1987

Sowell's landmark 1987 work arguing that the deepest divide in political and social thought is not between left and right, but between two fundamen...

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The Vision of the Anointed

person Sowell, Thomas event 1995

The 1995 sequel to *A Conflict of Visions*, focusing specifically on the unconstrained vision as held by a self-appointed intellectual elite — 'the...

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Constrained vs Unconstrained Vision

Introduced by Thomas Sowell in A Conflict o...

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

A cognitive bias where people with limited competence or knowledge in a specific domain greatly overestimate their own abilities. The same lack of ...

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