It astonishes me how many people are comfortable embracing soothing falsehoods.
As I often say these days, is it better to be right? Or to feel like you're right, even when you're wrong? If it's better to be right, you need to be comfortable with uncertainty, with seeking out errors in your perception, with challenging your existing belie…
It astonishes me how many people are comfortable embracing soothing falsehoods.
As I often say these days, is it better to be right? Or to feel like you're right, even when you're wrong? If it's better to be right, you need to be comfortable with uncertainty, with seeking out errors in your perception, with challenging your existing beliefs when they cannot explain new evidence.
One of God's names, perhaps the most important one, is "Truth."
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Sadly, this also helps to explain the rise of the world's Loomers. I think it was Eric S. Raymond who would often make the point that if certain truths are deemed bigoted to say out loud (for example, that CAIR is hostile to America), then the only people who will dare to speak the truth will be bigoted people (like Loomer). If so, then people seeking out the truth will be drawn to the bigoted people, and not knowing the difference, will become steeped in bigotry.
In a weaker form, this applies to the rise of Trump himself. He was the only national politician willing to take on the problems that others have been ignoring for decades, and that was because the cocktail-party set decreed that it was rude to actually address our problems.
It astonishes me how many people are comfortable embracing soothing falsehoods.
As I often say these days, is it better to be right? Or to feel like you're right, even when you're wrong? If it's better to be right, you need to be comfortable with uncertainty, with seeking out errors in your perception, with challenging your existing beliefs when they cannot explain new evidence.
One of God's names, perhaps the most important one, is "Truth."
****
Sadly, this also helps to explain the rise of the world's Loomers. I think it was Eric S. Raymond who would often make the point that if certain truths are deemed bigoted to say out loud (for example, that CAIR is hostile to America), then the only people who will dare to speak the truth will be bigoted people (like Loomer). If so, then people seeking out the truth will be drawn to the bigoted people, and not knowing the difference, will become steeped in bigotry.
In a weaker form, this applies to the rise of Trump himself. He was the only national politician willing to take on the problems that others have been ignoring for decades, and that was because the cocktail-party set decreed that it was rude to actually address our problems.