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> This is true, but I think this minimizes the size of "the global lunacy community" I have a friend who's a member of said community, and I don't think she's
by Joeboy 6y ago
> This is true, but I think this minimizes the size of "the global lunacy community"
I have a friend who's a member of said community, and I don't think she's a lunatic at all. I think she's just struggling to make sense of things, and is a bit susceptible to manipulation. For example, one of the reasons she apparently found the "Plandemic" video convincing was because it was "calm", "rational" and "science based". I guess it superficially matched some heuristics for "reliability" and that was good enough for her. Honestly I think these are the same heuristics most of us use, most of the time. Fact-checking is hard and not many people do it.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoThat is one of the tactics used. Anger, even righteous, is an "argument lost" if the other person just "wants a rational discussion" even if they are flooding it with falsehoods, misrepresented information, logical fallacies, etc. It reminds me of this trope: https://www.mumsnet.com/uploads/talk/201802/large-457127-large-752373-sealioning.png https://www.mumsnet.com/uploads/talk/201802/large-457127-lar...
- briantakita 6y agoDon't forget about Psychological Projection... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection