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After all, perception and sentiment are just as effective, if not more so, in influencing people s actions. Politicians know this. Media conglomerates know this. Objective reality is a non-starter, and boring to boot. Reviewed here are three books that, by example, demonstrate the correct way to think in a world anchored not by staid facts and irrelevant ideas but by desire, wish-fullfilment and cathartic paranoia.