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> Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negativel
by allturtles 3y ago
> Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.
This sounds like an attempt to bypass the need for an actual argument for your position by painting your opponents as dupes who are in thrall to their cognitive biases.
One could just as well write about "improvism" that it's "the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy prospection, to view the future more favourably and the past more negatively." This would bring the same amount of valuable content to an argument, i.e. nearly zero.
It's obvious that it's possible both for things to get better and to get worse, so if you want to argue for one or the other, please bring some actual evidence, not just generalities about an "ism" with which the other side is afflicted.
- DrDroop 3y agoSometimes the problem with what people believe isn't that it isn't true but that they talk and think about it all the fucking time. Questions their headspace is often the more emphatic way to act.
- mcpackieh 3y agoYou've rightly hedged with "sometimes", the article on the other hand is very whiggish and seems to incline that any perception of decline at any time in any place is a cognitive bias and not representative of reality. What about in the UK during and in the years after WW2, when rationing continued and in some cases got even worse even after the war ended and average body weights were dropping? Where people who perceived a decline there and then operating under delusions and believing things which weren't true? Do their experiences at the time not count because a generation later things started to recover? Or maybe their experiences don't count because the decline of the British empire was actually a good thing from certain points of view and anybody who saw it as a decline had an invalid opinion? Or maybe because technology seems to march inexorably onward, decline in other aspects of life are wholly negated and therefore anybody who perceives any decline is wrong. If rent and groceries now account for a larger portion of an average worker's spending but ipads got twice as fast, does that mean that people who perceive a decline are objectively wrong?
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