2/ It's counterintuitive because we expect The Wisdom of The Crowds. But, when we integrate the negation of someone else's expressions into our beliefs because we reliably disagree with "their type" — and when social experience dominates — people increasingly believe in nonsense.
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3/ It's one of the mildest cases for why Trump is unfit for office (although that verdict came back in early 2016): He is an entropy bomb. (Yes, all bombs are kinda entropy bombs.)
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4/ By lying relentlessly and pathologically into the worlds largest megaphone, he annihilates the information of our asocial experiences, leaving only the stereotyped expectations as a useful heuristic and means of navigating sociopolitical reality.
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5/ While the MAGA tent — a mixture of useful fool racists and an indifferent upper class that just wants deregulation and tax cuts to pull out ahead further — believes in some remarkable, nonsensical, and self-serving things, their continued power contaminates EVERYONE's beliefs.
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6/ I don't say this to excuse anything about that axis of fuckery. 2015-on has been the moral test of a generation and they are the abject failures. However, the longer we're under this chaos regime, the more likely it is that we all believe in bullshit. So mind your beliefs!
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(This will end up as a lengthy, interactive data biz that I’m working on. Abstraction in tweets is like reading tea leaves sometimes.)
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Yea. It really does feel like free-falling at scale.
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