Uno Reverse Quotes

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

To the ladies who live in a world full of fragile men who can’t hear the word “no” be the twisted little Uno that pulls a reverse card and puts them to their knees.

Men who think they own everything and everyone.  That is, until I pull the Uno Reverse card on them.

This world wasn’t designed for women. It’s written and constructed around men. Men who think they own everything and everyone. That is, until I pull the Uno Reverse card on them.

Cuando algo tiene solución y es reversible debería considerarse tan solo un aliciente para superarse a uno mismo, no una razón para tirar la vida por la borda.

La observación psiquiátrica del ser humano tiene algo de lesivo que consiste más en la clasificación de lo anormal que en su simple constatación. Ya no hay más normas reales; entre los hombres que tienen criterio y experiencia se ha llegado al convencimiento de que cada uno, todo, de una manera u otra, es anormal. El valor de esta idea está en el sentimiento de individualidad de cada hombre que tal idea fomenta: así es como uno quisiera respetar, amar y proteger a cada individuo, incluso en el caso de que su conducta no fuera ni comprensible ni previsible. Sin embargo, el psiquiatra - que crea categorías de anormalidad y a quien le incumbe primero clasificar y luego curar - al hombre que a menudo está humillado le quita además su carácter de ente individual. La víctima de este poder de agrupar a los otros no es únicamente el que es objeto de esta clasificación; también para el observador que está implicado en ella le resulta deprimente ver este poder en acción y no poder hacer nada para que sea reversible.