The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don’t really care for his writing, but this idea is important, and it’s something I hadn’t thought much about before.
I do like this parenthetical quote:
My heuristic is that the more pagan, the more brilliant one’s mind, and the higher one’s ability to handle nuances and ambiguity. Purely monotheistic religious such as Protestant Christianity, Salafi Islam, or fundamentalist atheism accommodate literalist and mediocre minds that cannot handle ambiguity.
The point is that the vast majority of people are tolerant (in most any question) and so will accommodate a tiny minority who are not.