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For how flippant it appears, I think this is very close to the truth. People have so much mentally and emotionally invested in a particular idea/messiah/institu
by lmkg 17y ago
For how flippant it appears, I think this is very close to the truth. People have so much mentally and emotionally invested in a particular idea/messiah/institution, that the cost of changing or rejecting that idea is basically admitting that the past several decades were lived in mistake, and changing those ideas would require a drastic self-evaluation. It's like vendor lock-in for ideas.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoPeople, especially in the U.S., underestimate the amount of noise and outright corruption in determining what makes something successful, established, and well-known. They also personalize success and failure to the extreme. What differentiates the intelligent is that they're able and willing to question their assumptions. Such people tend to be more liberal, which is why the left is much less cohesive (and in a two-party system, much weaker) than the right. Ask any liberal about Obama and you'll hear 10 different disagreements and criticisms, whereas Palin can do no wrong among her fan base.