Emotions dominate but do not always determine a person's decision. But rational thinking is effortful, and therefore more rare. As our information environment gets flooded with more stimuli, we are going to fall back more on vibes to manage our mental space.
My thoughts exactly. You may attempt to act rationally, but if there is too little data to go on, the data you have is no good, or there is so much data to go on that the situation is overwhelming, your decision will either be put off, never made, or based on 'vibes'.
Meh. Keynes was talking about "animal spirits" in markets almost a century ago.
Academia has been corrupted by the Left, where "right thinking" often replaced rigorous thinking in the "softer" disciplines. But that has little impact on the rest of the world.
Where religion has historically been seen as the “opiate of the masses,” today it is more direct and less costly; vibes or making enough people feel good (or simply giving them someone or something to blame for their feeling bad) is all the neufeudalist needs for hierarchical control.
@theguardian.com do you think this kind of reporting benefits your organization and those reporting?
You do realize, this kind of reporting is like the trees cheering on the axe in the forest?
If you do not offer facts to advance humanity, then the media adds zero value.
The end.
I've read that we make our decisions in our subconscious and post rationalise them in our conscious. I assume the conscious applies a layer of social conditioning but our decision making based on deep embedded factors must be hard to overcome. Thats why dog whistle political messaging is so powerful
Sorry I'm taking my like back, I got half way through and it started turning into nonsense. Did you have an AI write this, because it sure feels like it.
I read it, and I have the same opinion. Humans are inherently emotional. Learning to think rationally in spite of emotions is essential to good decision-making. This is my opinion, anyway. Strong emotions hijack our reasoning processes.
I haven't read this yet, but I think it was the "vibes" campaign of Kamala Harris that was a factor in her loss. I was never optimistic she'd win and found the JOY hyperbole a lot to stomach. We needed a serious comparison to the MAGA agenda. Sigh; hello Project 2025. 😡
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Academia has been corrupted by the Left, where "right thinking" often replaced rigorous thinking in the "softer" disciplines. But that has little impact on the rest of the world.
As we shift towards vibe/feelings (over facts), we are easier to both analyze and manipulate.
The louder the better!
You do realize, this kind of reporting is like the trees cheering on the axe in the forest?
If you do not offer facts to advance humanity, then the media adds zero value.
The end.
Too much filler not enough substance.