So much of human existence is just going along with the narrative. Once in a while you come across some information just makes you sort of pause and scratch your head a bit and wonder if everything you thought you knew is not true. How much of it was just going along with the accepted narrative. The instinct is to fight the outlier and to “defend” what you believed to be true. It’s a strange thing to have to defend something that was never really in your control. Why do we even do it? If you’re a rational human, your views should simply update with the newly discovered information or at the very least make you maul over it for some time to make sense of it instead of outright rejection. I guess such is the outcome of outsourcing many parts of your understanding to others. Not sure where I’m going with this thought - just interesting to see how people treat new data. Cognitive biases are a helluva thing.
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It's this type of sentiment that caused me to make a previous recommendation to you to check out the youtube video linked in my NOSTR profile.
Maybe this time you'll check it out and mull over it for some time to make sense of it instead of outright rejection.
It's easier to trick a fool than to convince a fool he's been tricked! (Mark Twain)
Growing up I had several rug-pulling moments where I had to completely 180 degrees reevaluate what I thought reality/truth was. That really sucked, but now when it happens I can kind of just shrug and accept that I was wrong (again) and accept the new understanding. I think maybe it happening so much when I was small helped me in a way. It's so silly to see grown people cling to beliefs even as they are repeatedly proven incorrect. Like don't you just get tired of defense?
"If you’re a rational human, your views should simply update with the newly discovered information or at the very least make you mull over it for some time to make sense of it instead of outright rejection."
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It takes a human a long time to discover this. (If it occurs at all).
In my case, I was incredibly pissed at Putin, and I didn’t even try to understand the Russian side about the situation with Ukraine. I admit I was brainwashed by the mainstream media and I don't even have a TV at my home.
After some time, I gave myself a push to find sources that would help me see the bigger picture why rhe hell would he do it. Now I understand that Russia was provoked by the US for decades. Since then, I have completely changed my views on the whole situation.
I'm still against the war but they simply didn't give him other option.
I just hope Trump will do something about this NATO enlargement. Or even better. Dismantling NATO entirely 🤞🏼