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"More of what matters. None of what doesn't."

That sounds great -- but in my immense experience in challenging people on their calcified "convictions" that cannot survive scrutiny: The response is almost invariably "None of what matters. More of what doesn't." Countless people are flooding the internet daily with their "concerns" about cognitive dissonance, but the second they even perceive a threat to their interests, lo and behold -- out comes the cognitive dissonance.

Like what I call the Critical Thinking Crowd: In the force fields of fallacy people hide behind today, you can claim to be a critical thinker and not do anything that remotely reflects its requirements. In a world where advertising virtue magically equates to embodying it, you can believe whatever you want and get away with it with ease, because you’ve got friends. Anything Goes when going for gold in the Gutter Games of Government. And when you’re constantly reinforced by your fellowship of fury — you can promote principles in one breath and abandoning them the next.

Or as I coined social media -- Safe-Space Central:

"The individual believer must have social support. It is unlikely that one isolated believer could withstand the kind of disconfirming evidence we have specified. If, however, the believer is a member of a group of convinced persons who can support one another, we would expect the belief to be maintained and the believers to attempt to proselyte or to persuade nonmembers that the belief is correct.

These five conditions specify the circumstances under which increased proselyting would be expected to follow disconfirmation."

-- When Prophecy Fails

From the Earth to the Moon to “WUT”: https://onevoicebecametwo.life/2024/04/24/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-to-wut/

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Odd socks

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Your examples are trivial I remember a physician who ran a rehab centre I spent 3 months recovering from a stroke. He wore them for ‘fun’

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I don't understand your comment. Who wore what for fun?

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