The leader of a conservative think tank claims that most recent political violence in the U.S. has been caused by left-wing extremists, but the data paints a different picture.
I think a lot of humanity just has a deep seated need to hear their own opinions repeated by somebody they think is better than them, be it an important man in a tie, a newspaper headline, or even just an influencer on TikTok.
And once they hear that one opinion, it leaves them wide open to accept pretty much anything that comes out of their mouths.
The old media, the TV networks, social media… It’s all there to push their own ideas masquerading as your own. Find an opening and shovel it in. I can’t claim immunity to it either. I’m perfectly happy to see “Brexit voters had lower levels of education” as a headline and think “yup, that makes sense”, while for all I know it could be complete bollocks.
There’s so much shit being thrown at you 24 hours a day, that you can’t even begin to fact check all of it.
Sadly true; brains are pattern-matching rationalization engines more than anything else. It’s a pretty simple, but very effective hack once you know the neural paths.
I think a lot of humanity just has a deep seated need to hear their own opinions repeated by somebody they think is better than them, be it an important man in a tie, a newspaper headline, or even just an influencer on TikTok.
And once they hear that one opinion, it leaves them wide open to accept pretty much anything that comes out of their mouths.
The old media, the TV networks, social media… It’s all there to push their own ideas masquerading as your own. Find an opening and shovel it in. I can’t claim immunity to it either. I’m perfectly happy to see “Brexit voters had lower levels of education” as a headline and think “yup, that makes sense”, while for all I know it could be complete bollocks.
There’s so much shit being thrown at you 24 hours a day, that you can’t even begin to fact check all of it.
Sadly true; brains are pattern-matching rationalization engines more than anything else. It’s a pretty simple, but very effective hack once you know the neural paths.