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HN seems to harbor an elite naiveté crowd who thinks there is no such thing as official misconduct in the world. (Elite naivete is a term I coined from hanging
by api 13y ago
HN seems to harbor an elite naiveté crowd who thinks there is no such thing as official misconduct in the world.
(Elite naivete is a term I coined from hanging around in the orbit of elite schools and noting that people from prep school / elite backgrounds are often shockingly naive about how boots-on-the-ground reality works beyond their enclaves.)
- tptacek 13y agoWe must be on different HNs.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoLikewise. The HN I read is full of anti-epistemological conspiracy theorists these days.
- anigbrowl 13y agoWe're just suffering from 'just world' syndrome.
- api 13y agoThanks for the reference... this is precisely what I mean by elite naiveté... a bias toward thinking that the mechanisms of the world are more just and fair than they actually are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
- anigbrowl 13y agoI know, but I also think it has become a political nostrum that's used to shut down debate as often as open it up. It's easy to fall into a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome mindset as well; this used to be considered a mass media pehnomenon, but relatively small internet communities fulfil the same function. In short, not all good news is propaganda.