Post by midcan5 on Nov 16, 2017 6:58:06 GMT -5
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Why do some cling to straws? Conspiratorial thought is so odd, all these women are lying because? They are all in cahoots? That would be because? I think deep down most people know they are telling the truth, but the thought isn't allowed as it would conflict with personal bias and even the childish wish to belong. One must be a part of something even if the something is wrong or contrary to their best values. In this case it is the republicans represented by Moore, Bannon, Fox and it's apologists. Belonging matters, individual conscience not so much. The herd is a place for the weak to feel strong.
aeon.co/essays/the-intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists
www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/
"The main hypothesis concerning group-think is this: the more amiability and espirt de corps among the members of an in-group of policymakers the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and the dehumanizing actions directed at out-groups." Irving L. Janis in 'Sanctions for Evil'
This is the herd mentality at work. awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/03/8-symptoms-groupthink/
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Soren Kierkegaard
Why do some cling to straws? Conspiratorial thought is so odd, all these women are lying because? They are all in cahoots? That would be because? I think deep down most people know they are telling the truth, but the thought isn't allowed as it would conflict with personal bias and even the childish wish to belong. One must be a part of something even if the something is wrong or contrary to their best values. In this case it is the republicans represented by Moore, Bannon, Fox and it's apologists. Belonging matters, individual conscience not so much. The herd is a place for the weak to feel strong.
aeon.co/essays/the-intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists
www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/
"The main hypothesis concerning group-think is this: the more amiability and espirt de corps among the members of an in-group of policymakers the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and the dehumanizing actions directed at out-groups." Irving L. Janis in 'Sanctions for Evil'
This is the herd mentality at work. awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/03/8-symptoms-groupthink/
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Soren Kierkegaard