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I think one of my recurring questions re: the BLM stuff, is that support for what's going on is obviously coming from some deep lack of interest in truth or rigorous analysis. Is this a new thing, or has it always been there and is now just showing up?

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Aella

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I mean I do know it's always been there, but this is entering public acceptance on a very high level, and is indicative of a much larger support base of individuals. What changed in our culture to make such intensely bad thinking happen in such a large wave?

10:42 PM · Jul 3, 2020

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Is it excess? We're a very rich nation and even if you're below the poverty line in the US you're still richer than a big chunk of the world population. Does the general security take away the close need for having thinking methods that actually result in success?

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jul 3, 2020

But e.g., Scandinavian countries, which seem to be pretty rich, don't seem to be equivalently insane. Maybe the smaller size and relative homogeneity helps prevent internal conflict that serves as a seed for this sort of thing?

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Moral persecution is a symptom of moral insecurity — and when you’re already insecure, who wants rigor?

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As a zoomer a lot of my peers value "justice" over anything else so it's easy to spin isolated occurances that take place over a huge country into a narrative that confirms your priors on people being racist etc

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Lockdown fear & boredom/lack of distraction on top of a slowly rising tide of shitty universities brainwashing X herd mentality & lack of original thought all coming together. But I’ve found the reasonable people are less quiet now too,I Just hope it doesn’t become more violent

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Definitely social media. So many people are incentivized to create viral ideologies, and some stick. Social media also rewards fast&emotional reasoning over slow&rational. And it's a global phenomenon.

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Can you give some examples of where you are seeing “bad thinking”? Not at all what I’ve observed.

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This might make some sense of it: amazon.ca/Cynical-Theori

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I would say a combination of vastly "improved" propaganda techniques, all the MSM essentially becoming propaganda outlets for one faction or another & deliberately misreports facts, an education system that puts ever more value on memorization and ever less on critical thinking,

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hey. i dont believe its bad thinking exactly. This is the limbic system of an individual trying to find an equilibrium, which was best managed previously by small groups (religion, culture, trad, etc), into a larger domain. These outbursts are trivial, but the current is real.