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I recently discovered Tim Urban's "The thinking ladder" * Think like a scientist * Think like a sports fan * Think like an attorney * Think like a zaelot A
by ithkuil 4y ago
I recently discovered Tim Urban's "The thinking ladder"
* Think like a scientist
* Think like a sports fan
* Think like an attorney
* Think like a zaelot
According to his model, being a sports fan is not even close as bad as lower rungs of the ladder. Sport fans do root for their teams and do engage in all sort of tribalism but ultimately care about The Game and they would be deeply dissatisfied if the game ethics were breached in favour of any team, including their own; it would just ruin the whole point of the game.
While the "attorney" persona deliberately ignores the truth or pretends to do so if that requires serving their clients.
Only the true "zaelot" fully lives in their delusion and nothing, truly nothing will make them wake up from anything because waking up would mean losing themeselves.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoExcept teams that cheat still have tons of fans.
- kadoban 4y agoSure, but the key is how they think about the cheating part. A sports fan will on average kind of vaguely deny it, but if real proof comes out it just becomes something they don't talk about or they'll pass blame around as much as possible. A lawyer will deny, deny, deny in every permutation of possible ways. A zealot will both deny and say the enemy deserved it and is worse.