[k0mplex]

If you don't read the New York Review of Books already, and you like periodicals like the New Yorker and Economist, I recommend adding it to your list - and this article is a good example of why.

Also, this was such a great point by Soros from the interview: "According to Max Planck, among others, subatomic phenomena have a dual character: they can manifest themselves as particles or waves. Something similar applies to human beings: they are part freestanding individuals or particles and partly components of larger entities that behave like waves. The impact they make on reality depends on which alternative dominates their behavior. There are potential tipping points from one alternative to the other but it is uncertain when they will occur and the uncertainty can be resolved only in retrospect."

[spikels]

Soros is wrong here. Max Planck was actually strongly against the duality interpretation and his influence suppressed Einstein and others correct interpretation for several decades.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xsSv3kSDEd8C&lpg=PA8&ots=9L...

[singold]

Really? Using physics that you[0] don't understand to justify some kind of pseudo-science?

[0] I refer to Soros, not to k0mplex

[effdee]

Gustave Le Bon would certainly agree to this observation since it is the essence of his 1896 book "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".

Staying with physics analogies, this book is like a photon. It is illuminating. Proper absorption leads to a higher state and the world will look a bit darker afterwards.