People will viciously defend their ideology, because it provides a shared mindspace, which helps them to make sense of reality with the help of countless others.
There are several strategies to police the integrity of one's belief system: - Be promiscuous (woo woo!) - Ask high status peers - Certified authority ('expert', priest, media or government) - External sources based on their rational epistemology - Individual rationality
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I’ll take individual rationality especially when it comes to survival.
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Sometimes I feel like Cassandra. I know things bc I invested a lot of time researching ...but nobody believes what I say.
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