Related: I once heard someone (think it was Kevin Simler) recommend that we keep our identities "thin." If you let ideology(ies) take you over, you'll end up w/ tons of false beliefs. (An exception, perhaps, is if your 'ideology' is simply to believe whatever is true.)
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A bit of wishful thinking now and again doesn’t hurt- As long as you are intelligent enough to objectively view it as wishful thinking.

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And as long as its not the basis of your reasoning...
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Intelligent minds can certainly be furiously good at maintaining confirmation bias because they have so much more information and cleverness with which to justify their beliefs.
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Yet as John LeCarre observed in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy', fanatics must be fanatics because they harbor secret doubts; doubly so for intelligent fanatics.
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' Ideology is like bad breath, it's always what other people have.'
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Be especially careful of those who position themselves as critics of ideology, because then any criticism of their criticism of ideology they perceive as ideology.
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Interesting. Would you mind giving an example you had in mind?
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That’s why I love
@thichnhathanh “throw out all ideologies” approach. His remodelled precepts / mindfulness trainings are v relevanthttps://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.lionsroar.com/the-fourteen-precepts-of-engaged-buddhism/amp/ … -
The First Mindfulness Training: Openness: Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones.
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