Yup. They take mental shortcuts, either out of laziness or because it's "inconvenient" to their goal.
Like just recently I saw a thread on resetera, and the number of people diving in and auto-believing some book claiming it was Joe Rogan's fault that Harris couldn't get on for an interview.
No one even questions the book's claim. They just insta-assume it's true and then spit out a bunch of baseless ad hominem bullshit about Joe Rogan. How he's a "racist", sexist, just about any and every nonsensical accusation they can come up with.
And these are the same idiots who wag their finger at anyone who dares to do their own research. Instead insisting that you solely put your hands in the hands of the so-called "experts". Because the so-called experts could "NEVER" be completely off their rockers or full of total bullshit.
My favorite example is regulatory capture. A leftist will eagerly believe that the government agencies meant to regulate corporations have been fully captured by those corporations, but try to tell a leftist that the institutions meant to discover and curate our information have been similarly captured by biased ideologues. You will receive no principled coherence in such an exchange.
I believe 100% it's unintentional for most people. Only the ones making money are doing it on purpose. Most PEOPLE in general don't have a linear thought process, their have an associative one. Stimulus response plus operant conditioning and that's the extent of most people's "reasoning"
Summed up, there are more stupid reasons to believe true things than good reasons. So just because somebody's conclusions are right doesn't make them not retarded.
Yup. They take mental shortcuts, either out of laziness or because it's "inconvenient" to their goal.
Like just recently I saw a thread on resetera, and the number of people diving in and auto-believing some book claiming it was Joe Rogan's fault that Harris couldn't get on for an interview.
No one even questions the book's claim. They just insta-assume it's true and then spit out a bunch of baseless ad hominem bullshit about Joe Rogan. How he's a "racist", sexist, just about any and every nonsensical accusation they can come up with.
And these are the same idiots who wag their finger at anyone who dares to do their own research. Instead insisting that you solely put your hands in the hands of the so-called "experts". Because the so-called experts could "NEVER" be completely off their rockers or full of total bullshit.
My favorite example is regulatory capture. A leftist will eagerly believe that the government agencies meant to regulate corporations have been fully captured by those corporations, but try to tell a leftist that the institutions meant to discover and curate our information have been similarly captured by biased ideologues. You will receive no principled coherence in such an exchange.
I believe 100% it's unintentional for most people. Only the ones making money are doing it on purpose. Most PEOPLE in general don't have a linear thought process, their have an associative one. Stimulus response plus operant conditioning and that's the extent of most people's "reasoning"
Summed up, there are more stupid reasons to believe true things than good reasons. So just because somebody's conclusions are right doesn't make them not retarded.