The underlying issue with those people is the unhealthy focus on cultivating a personal identity. You’re right, this stops all critical thinking. This can be tr

The underlying issue with those people is the unhealthy focus on cultivating a personal identity. You’re right, this stops all critical thinking. This can be true for say, I don’t know, a self built ‘modern developer’ identity, one who fashions herself a meetup-attending, tensorflow hacking, data science following, kubernetes using, graphql building, etc. Once you commit to these identities, you’re fucked. The conspiracy theorist will never think critically, and neither will this developer as they are too invested in keeping up the image. The conspiracy theorist is just gonna deny everything and apply some theory to it, and the developer will suffer similar patterns. Anyway, back to my original point. Don’t think technical people are not susceptible to the same shit most of the society is susceptible to. Our profession doesn’t better create critical thinkers.