Ties That Blind: Unraveling Stories That Keep Us in the Dark

If the crowd around us says the sky is green, it’s much easier to go along with the crowd than to be the lone standout arguing for blueness.

How can people who seem perfectly sane believe seemingly crazy things? Why will people shapeshift their individual morals to align with collective immoralities?

In Ties That Blind, Psychologist Alan Godwin attempts to answer such questions by looking at the nature of collective deception. There’s a difference between what’s true and a story that’s false ...