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> America was wrong. Saddam was evil. They can both be true. Is there a word in psychology for people not being able to process such thinking?
by consumer451 3y ago
> America was wrong. Saddam was evil. They can both be true.
Is there a word in psychology for people not being able to process such thinking?
- postsantum 3y agoManichean delirium Many such cases on web-forums frequented by otherwise intelligent people
- consumer451 3y ago> Manichean delirium This is excellent and just opened up a whole new part of human history to me. Thank you! > Manichaeism teaches an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
- jcranmer 3y agoI find it interesting that Manichaeism is used as a synonym for dualism despite the fact that dualistic cosmologies predate Manichaeism by at least a millennium--Zoroastrianism relies heavily on dualistic cosmology, and probably exists in a similar form in the older Indo-Iranian religion that Zoroastrianism (and Hinduism, for that matter) is based on.
- bee_rider 3y agoI don’t know about in psychology, but it’s just black-and-white thinking, informally, right?
- Log_out_ 3y agoTribalism. People actually have a aversion to heated public debate, fearing the tribe breaks up. That's also why there can always be only one plan.