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Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things...
What causes Delusion? The prevailing view is that people adopt false beliefs because they’re too stupid or ignorant to grasp the truth. But just as often, the opposite is true: many delusions prey not on dim minds but on bright ones. And this has serious implications for education, society, and you personally.
In this video in collaboration with Gurwinder, we explore the reasons why intelligent people believe irrational things and what can be done to avoid the allure of delusion...
What causes Delusion? The prevailing view is that people adopt false beliefs because they’re too stupid or ignorant to grasp the truth. But just as often, the opposite is true: many delusions prey not on dim minds but on bright ones. And this has serious implications for education, society, and you personally.
In this video in collaboration with Gurwinder, we explore the reasons why intelligent people believe irrational things and what can be done to avoid the allure of delusion...
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SFC John D.
Charlie, I for one am very grateful that you seem to be coming out of the progressive-left cult and joining the rest of reality towards the center. The video is completely accurate in its depiction of the craziness of “wokeism”, “sex is a spectrum”, “obesity is healthy” and other views that are objectively false and are “ideology disguised as knowledge”.
I think that everyone on RallyPoint should watch this video – I highly recommend it and if Charlie and Chip also endorse it, we have a win-win from the left and the right!
- "For centuries, elite academic institutions like Oxford and Harvard have been training their students to win arguments but not to discern truth, and in so doing, they've created a class of people highly skilled at motivated reasoning. The 'master debaters' that emerge from these institutions go on to become tomorrow's 'elites' - politicians, entertainers, and intellectuals.”
- “Master debaters are naturally drawn to areas where arguing well is more important than being correct - law, politics, media and academia, and in these industries of pure theory, sheltered from reality, they use their powerful rhetorical skills to convince each other of fibs the more counterintuitive, the better. Naturally their most virent arguments soon escape the lab, spreading from individuals to departments to institutions to societies. Some of these arguments can now be found everywhere.”
- Accurately describes Wokeism as "an identitarian ideology combining elements of conspiracy theory and moral panic which became fashionable in academia towards the end of the 20th century” and “wokeism reduces the world down to simplistic oppressor/victim relations in which people who are white, straight, slim or male are the oppressors and while those who are non-White, LGBT, fat or female are victims”.
- Brings up the mental gymnastics that Southern Democrats produced to justify slavery, especially that slaves desiring freedom had a mental disorder – much like the fictitious disorder that white people are diagnosed with today: White fragility.
While all the examples of otherwise intelligent people believing in stupid things are from the progressive-left, the narrator does display a very good point that all people, regardless of their persuasion, are susceptible to being taken in by those that want to “have your animal impulses commandeer your intellect”.
I think that everyone on RallyPoint should watch this video – I highly recommend it and if Charlie and Chip also endorse it, we have a win-win from the left and the right!
- "For centuries, elite academic institutions like Oxford and Harvard have been training their students to win arguments but not to discern truth, and in so doing, they've created a class of people highly skilled at motivated reasoning. The 'master debaters' that emerge from these institutions go on to become tomorrow's 'elites' - politicians, entertainers, and intellectuals.”
- “Master debaters are naturally drawn to areas where arguing well is more important than being correct - law, politics, media and academia, and in these industries of pure theory, sheltered from reality, they use their powerful rhetorical skills to convince each other of fibs the more counterintuitive, the better. Naturally their most virent arguments soon escape the lab, spreading from individuals to departments to institutions to societies. Some of these arguments can now be found everywhere.”
- Accurately describes Wokeism as "an identitarian ideology combining elements of conspiracy theory and moral panic which became fashionable in academia towards the end of the 20th century” and “wokeism reduces the world down to simplistic oppressor/victim relations in which people who are white, straight, slim or male are the oppressors and while those who are non-White, LGBT, fat or female are victims”.
- Brings up the mental gymnastics that Southern Democrats produced to justify slavery, especially that slaves desiring freedom had a mental disorder – much like the fictitious disorder that white people are diagnosed with today: White fragility.
While all the examples of otherwise intelligent people believing in stupid things are from the progressive-left, the narrator does display a very good point that all people, regardless of their persuasion, are susceptible to being taken in by those that want to “have your animal impulses commandeer your intellect”.
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