People know that if they do research they'll find out the truth about anything. The upside to that is that you are reassured in your views that you already had. The downside is that you're wrong, you're going to have to admit you were wrong, you should have known better by researching it early, and probably it'll lead to finding out you're wrong about related things.
The downside is way, way worse than the upside because people hate being wrong. Even on disposable, nickname accounts like here or reddit it's really hard for people to admit being wrong about inconsequential stuff.
So they just turn off. Better to mindlessly believe authority than be informed.
You can't really make being wrong less hurtful because this is ingrained in our core psyche by evolution. What we can do instead is ruthlessly mock idiots so the upside of not being wrong is a bigger draw. For instance, never forgive the vax mandate people and always rub their noses in it that they should have known better.
It's the information age.
People know that if they do research they'll find out the truth about anything. The upside to that is that you are reassured in your views that you already had. The downside is that you're wrong, you're going to have to admit you were wrong, you should have known better by researching it early, and probably it'll lead to finding out you're wrong about related things.
The downside is way, way worse than the upside because people hate being wrong. Even on disposable, nickname accounts like here or reddit it's really hard for people to admit being wrong about inconsequential stuff.
So they just turn off. Better to mindlessly believe authority than be informed.
You can't really make being wrong less hurtful because this is ingrained in our core psyche by evolution. What we can do instead is ruthlessly mock idiots so the upside of not being wrong is a bigger draw. For instance, never forgive the vax mandate people and always rub their noses in it that they should have known better.