1/ Anti-vaxx scares the shit out of me in that it makes collective action against climate change seem out of reach. People risking their children because they can’t do math and believe there is a vast medical conspiracy is a bunny slope compared to an Earth-scale complex system.
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I’d like to understand this perspective more. What do you mean program people? Isn’t the general purpose of argument to change the other person’s mind? A persuasive person isn’t necessarily right, but they’ve usually thought it through more than the listener who is persuaded.
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Yes, and ideally that's how things work. But we're not really rational animals, especially in groups. Our behavior is informed and constrained by the behavior of others in the group. When mass communication suddenly becomes possible those group dynamics become very important. 1/
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