noone wants to be that person who is "contrarian for the sake of being contrarian" either without good reasons to believe differently from their peers, their identity is merely based on...being disagreeable?
The best defense against ideology may be the concept of a "bien pensant," someone who believes exactly what's considered appropriate among their peers. No one aware of that concept would want to be one.
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I'd say there is another way of looking at contrarian thinking : if many people believe the same thing, it may be simply because they're subjected to some external influence i.e., they haven't given proper thought to whatever it is they believe.
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Best example: Karen in Veep! No one would want to be Karen - she's the mirror!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qoeSe_uzsI …
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I don't think any "bien pensant" would ever admit being one one. "bien pensant" genuinely think they are morally superior, and imho, calling them out as "bien pensant" would only reinforce their belief.
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True. I'm not suggesting that that you can convert someone else from being one, but that you can prevent yourself from becoming one.
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political correctness took over the american establishment over the last three decades.
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True, but there have always been bien pensants. All that changes is what they pense.
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Paul, you left the comma inside the quotation marks when you wrote "bien pensant". That's almost as unforgivable as (unbalanced parentheses
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That's the American custom.
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Paul, do you think we do not have bien pensant in France ?
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