even a lot of people I sincerely like, I know you don't think. not actually. you think that you think, but you lack the cognitive capacity to break from authority. it is what it is
("you" here may not be literally you, depends on who you are specifically, obvsly)
if you found this particular anti-mask narrative remotely plausible you are in fact functionally retarded, regardless of how smart you are, and a disturbingly large number of people fall into this bucket https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1278478803036065792…
"On the one hand we have experts who have driven this strategy so it has scientific merit."
this person is likely above-average intelligence
I want to die
I'm not better than "other people" on most dimensions but on this one, I am
disapproval won't change my mind, nor will it dissuade me from saying that yes I am in some real sense elite, the kind that isn't overproduced. and that's exactly the point
popular =/= predictive
But 90% sonya would be a lot better than so many “elites” at 1%.
It felt so socially weird to be stocking up and really seeing NYTimes/etc be so wrong.
We need different words for “elites” in turchin’s “elite overproduction” that has no positive valence.