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It’s depressing as hell. My political DNA is libertarian but I am starting to wonder if there isn’t a subset of humanity that simply can’t handle this level of
by api 5y ago
It’s depressing as hell. My political DNA is libertarian but I am starting to wonder if there isn’t a subset of humanity that simply can’t handle this level of unfiltered access to information.
Even worse I am having a tough time putting my finger on what the shortcoming of these people is.
It’s not IQ as I’ve seen and met quite a few gullible sheep of this sort who would undoubtedly score high. I don’t see a strong correlation either way with intelligence.
It doesn’t even seem to be one’s metaphysics or epistemology. I know devoutly religious people as well as mystics and occultist types who are nonetheless not gullible in the way that this crowd is gullible, and I have seen atheists and people with scientific backgrounds who are.
Race, nationality, even educational attainment doesn’t seem to map.
All that is a bit anecdotal. Maybe there are patterns if you look at enough data. But from what I can see there is just this subset of humanity who easily falls for bullshit when it’s framed in the right way.
Anyone can be conned of course, but I mean people who seem to just fill up a syringe with this kind of kool aid and bang it into a vein.
A friend of mine thinks it’s a desperate desire to be special that’s rooted in some kind of narcissism.
Another less generous opinion I heard on a podcast is that these people know exactly what is being dog whistled in this stuff and they are closet genocidal racists hoping for their revolution.
- smileypete 5y ago>Even worse I am having a tough time putting my finger on what the shortcoming of these people is. Polarization is the mRNA of disinformation.
- mistermann 5y ago> Even worse I am having a tough time putting my finger on what the shortcoming of these people is. I've been fairly obsessed with this general area for several years now, and I have come to a fairly strong conclusion that the(!) root cause is the nature of human consciousness (and in turn, how individuals perceive & conceptualize reality...or, how the human mind ~renders reality to our consciousness). > It’s not IQ as I’ve seen and met quite a few gullible sheep of this sort who would undoubtedly score high. I don’t see a strong correlation either way with intelligence. It doesn’t even seem to be one’s metaphysics or epistemology. I know devoutly religious people as well as mystics and occultist types who are nonetheless not gullible in the way that this crowd is gullible, and I have seen atheists and people with scientific backgrounds who are. Race, nationality, even educational attainment doesn’t seem to map. While there is surely some variance by various dimensions like these, I have come to the same conclusion as you, this phenomenon does not seem to have a very strong causal relationship with any of these things, as counter-intuitive as that may seem. That said, I think it is possible to start to make some sense out of it if you (even speculatively, as a thought experiment) consider it from the perspective of consciousness (our "reality rendering/generation engine") being the fundamental or primary root cause.