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> But ignorance is a choice. No, it's not always a choice. You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents yo
by lawn 3y ago
> But ignorance is a choice.
No, it's not always a choice.
You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents you from coming into contact with conflicting information.
This can even be true in less severe circumstances, such as being bombarded with propaganda on social media, which essentially hacks your brain.
- dylan604 3y agoI too disagree with that statement. Ignorance is just ignorance. What would make the GP's comment more accurate would be willful ignorance, but even that is stretching. To me, willful ignorance is just a sugar coating for a much more accurate/harsh description of what is actually happening.
- ncr100 3y agoI had a friend from a rough upbringing who called it, "poverty mindset". Eg you have a success in your life? Prepare to be shunned and thought of with disdain by your community.
- roflyear 3y agoIt's good to be humbled.
- klyrs 3y agoAnd what do we call it when somebody loses status, and are shunned and thought of with disdain by their community?
- IMTDb 3y agoIf it's because of their achievements ? Misplaced jealousy !
- hnbad 3y agoThe flip side of this is privilege mindset: you have success in your life? Your upper middle class upbringing, social safety net, financial security and financially successful peer group played no part in it, it's all because you worked hard (or smart) and now enjoy your just desserts, might as well kick down the ladder behind you so those lazy bums don't get a leg up. Arguably this is more common among privileged folks (including those fleetingly getting a whiff of privilege, aka "temporarily embarrassed billionaires") than "poverty mindset" is among poor folks. And of course the accusation of "poverty mindset" usually isn't what you hear from the kinds like the author who actively take time and money out of their meagerly successful lives to help those worse off than them. It's instead something you're far more likely to hear from those who "made it out" (often "against all odds" without any consideration what the idea of "odds" means in this context) and incidentally don't believe they "owe" anything to those they "left behind".
- roflyear 3y agoWhen you're a public figure, you hopefully do not have those issues. Any isolation or ignorance is a choice you're making. The author is very obviously not talking about people who are in a cult, or even the average person on Facebook. They are talking about public figures lecturing poor people on how they should behave.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoYeah, a very interesting piece of cognitive dissonance is when people are all "a person's behavior is a product of their environment, which they can't be held fully responsible for" until the person in question holds views or engages in behavior that we want to hold them personally accountable for. I know neither the "product of environment" or "personal responsibility" view is absolute with anyone, but I've noticed that different people draw the line in widely different places.
- roflyear 3y agoHow is that what this author is doing? Did you read the article?
- hasty_pudding 3y agoHow is behavior NOT a product of ones environment? One only has the information to make decisions about the world they have gathered from their environment. No one is born knowing correct way to behave. As an example do you think everyone in the Middle East is Muslim because they've made the decision to be? Or because that is what their environment has taught them is correct.
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