“The "flow of information," which is mostly misinformation, is actually a presentation of myths. And people are increasingly rejecting the prescribed myths & developing their own counter-myths.”

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 97

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