Probe anyone and you will find at least some extraordinarily dumb opinions, and question him about it, and you'll see the most laughable rationalizations you can imagine.
What if it's not just an opinion, but an entire worldview, with hundreds of nested opinions and rationalizations bundled together into a giant ball of hypocrisy and stupidity?
That is what makes it more intractable. You cannot persuade someone of something that goes against his entire worldview. And you can't change his worldview until you have persuaded him that most individual elements are wrong. Chicken and egg problem.
Probe anyone and you will find at least some extraordinarily dumb opinions, and question him about it, and you'll see the most laughable rationalizations you can imagine.
That does not make someone 'dumb'.
What if it's not just an opinion, but an entire worldview, with hundreds of nested opinions and rationalizations bundled together into a giant ball of hypocrisy and stupidity?
That is what makes it more intractable. You cannot persuade someone of something that goes against his entire worldview. And you can't change his worldview until you have persuaded him that most individual elements are wrong. Chicken and egg problem.