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You can be intelligent and believe the narratives. You can be intelligent and see you were fooled, seeing the sponsors of the narratives don't share any of you
by exceptione 7mo ago
You can be intelligent and believe the narratives.
You can be intelligent and see you were fooled, seeing the sponsors of the narratives don't share any of your ideals to begin with.
Many are confused, feeling betrayed, open for new perspectives. Some will double down as we know from group dynamics in sects.
Don't feel sad, it is a good sign of healthy progress. Project 2025 and the likes are a very destructive force, not something to gamble your democracy on.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoYou can be intelligent and believe the narratives. But what's intelligence good for, if it doesn't equip you to see reality for what it is?
- exceptione 7mo agoThere is the difficult and energy consuming way of thinking with the ratio, and there is a cheap way of thinking, based on ingrained beliefs, vibes, tribes etc. As humans we are quite fallible, but as long as mass media and "social" media don't hamper the process of eventual re calibration towards reality, we can come back from our mistakes. That imho also answers why autocrats immediately start a war on academia, they instinctively know where the danger lurks for them.