The Tyranny of Certainty – Erroll McDonald’s Critic’s Page in the October issue of Brooklyn Rail. “Certainty—not religion, as Marx postulated—might be ‘the opium of the people’: implacable, unfounded, lulling belief (maximal subjectivity) masquerading as universal, absolute truth (maximal objectivity). In so many areas of contemporary life—personal identity, politics, art, science—governed and manipulated as they are by algorithms encouraging complacency and conformity of thought, all manner of ‘truths’ are held to be ‘self-evident’ sometimes regardless of evidence to the contrary, leading to a chaos of dogmatism and divisiveness.”