If I pretended to hold just a third of the political positions I hold, any one of those thirds would probably have me at 3 times the followers from political Twitter.
I wonder if this explains the dismal quality of political Twitter somewhat. Are people really just pretending?
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I'm not suggesting my positions are Good and True, but I wonder why so many people have such predictable and limited opinions.
On some level, it feels like they can't possibly be real. People almost never hit this level of declared internal consistency in other areas of life.
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I think the trick is: people are ego-identifying with (and expressing) what they'd Like to believe (internally consistent) but they're often not examining what they Do believe
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not necessarily intentionally pretending, but unable to express ego-dystonicity
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Yeah, or to resolve cognitive dissonance. It's quite a trip how easily some people can be made to pivot between "beliefs".
And, past a certain point, how easily we all can.