“think for yourself” as a piece of advice is discriminatory against people who aren’t good at thinking, which is nearly everyone, including and especially me
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thinking should be a team sport, which is unfortunately exactly the opposite of the way thinking is introduced in school: as a way to impress your teachers and outcompete your classmates
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obviously we all depend constantly on each other’s thoughts, stretching back to the beginning of writing. nobody has ever thought for themselves. it’s impossible to be isolated from other people’s thoughts, even if those people have been dead for centuries
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the problem with cults is not that people have “stopped thinking for themselves,” as if that were something they would otherwise be doing. it’s that people are trusting some person or idea which is not actually trustworthy, and which is *unusual* to be trusting in that way
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Last person I expected to cult-shame QC
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well, it’s not as if “oh lol then i should just trust something that *is* trustworthy” is a primitive action tho! that part is actually hard! meanwhile most of us are either stuck with the big cult or we can double down on one or more small cults