When I read something on the internet, I always have the salt jar next to me
When I read something on the internet, I always have the salt jar next to me
This is similar to the other post where the nerds on the Ycombinator forum discussed Voat closure.
Is it me, or is everyone around here starting to see the matrix ever more clearly the more you hang around places like Poal?
It's like that meme of Sypher talking to Neo where he says "I no longer see code, I see blonde, brunette ... "
For example, when you first start to see the lies in mainstream media, it takes a while until you start to recognize their posts as false, correct, true only from a certain perspective, etc. But once you start to see the pattern, it is dead obvious to spot.
I am now starting to see people I thought were smart as only really really clever conspiracy theorists. They are EXCEPTIONAL at rationalizing absolutely anything away with with really clever arguments that sound plausible but aren't if you just stretch the argument into any dimension that the argument doesn't occupy.
Just read the Slashdot article linked above. It is absolutely amazing to me how obvious the thought pattern is. Just look at the number of permutations they will go through and the amount of vatriables they will work hard to align to justify an opinion that is clearly not their own and has been assigned to them by their social group.
It's absolutely astounding once you start to see it. And the patter repeats across all kinds of groups, but is most visible amongst the professional class that is either trained at a university level or in a parallel track where they are trained by these people.
Absolutely amazing.
This is similar to the other post where the nerds on the Ycombinator forum discussed Voat closure.
Is it me, or is everyone around here starting to see the matrix ever more clearly the more you hang around places like Poal?
It's like that meme of Sypher talking to Neo where he says "I no longer see code, I see blonde, brunette ... "
For example, when you first start to see the lies in mainstream media, it takes a while until you start to recognize their posts as false, correct, true only from a certain perspective, etc. But once you start to see the pattern, it is dead obvious to spot.
I am now starting to see people I thought were smart as only really really clever conspiracy theorists. They are EXCEPTIONAL at rationalizing absolutely anything away with with really clever arguments that sound plausible but aren't if you just stretch the argument into any dimension that the argument doesn't occupy.
Just read the Slashdot article linked above. It is absolutely amazing to me how obvious the thought pattern is. Just look at the number of permutations they will go through and the amount of vatriables they will work hard to align to justify an opinion that is clearly not their own and has been assigned to them by their social group.
It's absolutely astounding once you start to see it. And the patter repeats across all kinds of groups, but is most visible amongst the professional class that is either trained at a university level or in a parallel track where they are trained by these people.
Absolutely amazing.
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