Basic trick of magical thinking is to look at desirable delusions out of the corner of your eye with shallow attention. You can’t put untrue things front-and-center and will yourself to believe them anyway. You have to not-disbelieve in the strategic inattention zone.
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This makes sense to me peripherally.
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Ideology also works this way, where your unbelief is nevertheless structured by belief.
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This is what John Vervaeke (@ vervaeke_john) refers to as “salience landscaping”




