I used to believe that too! I'm 70, it took me a long,
L O N G time to realise how deluded I was! In fact it took me 66 years! ‘Cos for the first 4 I wasn't great at putting over my point with clarity & precision, just lots of foot stamping & tears, I gave them a miss about ...a few years ago.😇😈
they don't have self-awareness. they think any criticism is an attack and lash out instead of thinking. xenophobia is a primitive and real instinct so it is valid but in modern times it isn't useful like it was in tribes. it is similar to rape in this way. modern society doesn't need or accept it
Motivated reasoning is a helluva drug, it gives you the strength you need to uproot a goalpost and carry it a hundred yards faster than an Olympic sprinter.
Reason does not work on those determined to be unreasonable. The most well-reaserched, logically sound, and eloquently delivered argument can be shut down by three simple words: "I don't care."
As Kahneman talks about in Thinking Fast and Slow - and sales people are taught for selling - we react emotionally with our limbic system to make instant, intuitive decisions and then usually use our rational thought to justify our intuitive beliefs e.g. if "Hate migrants, hate Trans, cut taxes"
It's not a mental illness or even a delusion. But it is a fundamental misunderstanding of how humans make sense of the trillions of data points that come at them every day.
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L O N G time to realise how deluded I was! In fact it took me 66 years! ‘Cos for the first 4 I wasn't great at putting over my point with clarity & precision, just lots of foot stamping & tears, I gave them a miss about ...a few years ago.😇😈
That is what they are.
• everyone can learn
• everyone wants to learn
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxRhPa3aV-aa7aPzKX3TzQoMB49R0ej0l5?si=8doeCvRLHdBt15mR
It takes a traumatic or contradictory experience like losing a job to begin to challenge their world views when they are flooded with anxiety.
This is how it really works: