All people would be devastated without a coping strategy
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I generally favor the ideological as opposed to pharmacological approach. But short of kicking crutches like @magnabosco you do what works for you..
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Since you're a fan of clear thinking, I thought you might like to know that your tweet is an example of a logical fallacy known as ignoratio elenchi.
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We all love belonging to a group. Identifying with a community seems to be an inherent part of being human. When these groups are based around hobbies or interests, there’s generally little problem. When based around ideologies, however, more conflicts arise.
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Fandoms are essentially hobbies that became ideologies. Humans naturally gravitate towards an ideology: our identity formation is inextricably linked as such. Individuals may not even explicitly recognize their own ideology, they may simply accept what they believe as what is.
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neurologically that makes sense, and the guts are kind of a second distributed brain too - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/28/14088992/brain-study-change-minds …
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Religious and political both. Formerly the former was the predominant identity shaping force, unfortunately politics and extreme 'correctness' is an equally important force now and we are none the better for it. Not all want to throw off identity/ideological crutches.
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And walk on a rocky life path of only facts, which provide very little certainty or comfort to the non scientific temperament even as we all wallow in the progress of the data driven sciences and economies. Yuval Noah rightly talks about the power and need of myths.
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Poetry!
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