Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Non-Toxic Avenger 🗽 🍕
But we can distinguish group-thinking from what the group is thinking about, how that thinking works, whether it has worth or not and what to do about it. The psychology of tribalism AND the postmodern epistemological shift can usefully be addressed here.https://twitter.com/Bugs_Meany/status/980827586539515904 …
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I think my point is that the nut of the issue is hidden inside of the statement:
"initially ignored, but which evolved"
its about the evolution of group-thinking, not narrow academic-origins of ideas
Hoffer, basically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer …
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