#arewethebaddies
"And that is why you're not an evil man."
#ds9 s6e11, "waltz", on my mind these days.
how many around you these days could you rouse to mouthfrothing lust for vindictive attrocities and drop them a revelatory switch, right at the pinnacle, like "and that is why we're the good guys".
"This is a residential neighbourhood."
#FaceTheHorror "A war, is when two sides are fighting... so i think right there... we can all agree... it wasnt exactly a war." -- Bill Hicks.
"You must remember that the attack on Iraq, although presented as a war, it was not a war. It was so one sided, and it became an attack on the civilian population. The most vivid, and probably the most educative, revelation, was collateral murder." -- John Pilger
"THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_lYSEcqdA #IllegalInvasion #1MillionDeadIraqis
not the first time. #SeeWhatTheyDo #ruthless #deskkillers #CollateralMurder #wokepeopleuptothehorror #facethehorror #Iraq #WikiLeaks #JohnPilger #NotAWar " #LightThemUp " #deathfromabove #AreWeTheBaddies #UnarmedCivilians #WarCrime #WarCrimes #asymmetry #NotAThreat #Unarmed #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #TheyLied #FullSpectrumDominance #hypocrisy #TheyBombedMyHouse #Hate ... " #LookAtThoseDeadBastards " " #Nice " ... #EnemyCombatant #CollateralDamage #KilledCivilians #Orwellian ... #FirstTheyCame #NotInOurName #ThereIsSomethingYouCanDo #YouWillFindItAndYouWillDoIt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKP6DU6Vjt0
#bias #behaviouralscience #psychology #groupthink #interesting #introspectioncueing
#confirmationbias #cognitiveillusions
#insuficientinformation #engagelogicalslowthinking #withholdprematureconclusion #tapthebreaks
#biastoeasyanswers #biastonarratives #narratives #inconsiderate #bullying #usvsthem #redvsblue
#cherrypicking #evidencecherrypicking #cherrypickingevidence
#seeingwhatyouwanttosee #usingreasoningtofitprejudice #illusions
#massformationpsychosis #howithappens
"We make many of our most important decisions based on what can only be called cognitive illusions. This is embarrassing for us to realise, but the evidence for it is undeniable."
so to that, i say:
"there is no shame in the truth." -- Minbari Religious Cast Elder to Student, Babylon5.
"head into the wave." -- me / old saying / unattributed
as in find your way to where you no longer defeat yourself with your subborn clinging to your self image as one who makes no such errors.
embrace the errors.
then you are on the path. then you are learning.
our confirmation bias, our cognitive illusions, are due eternal vigilance, to not succumb to their blinding arogance and mental/investigative/scrutinative sloth.
this is true whether stupid, or oh so much more clever.
especially if you are oh so much more clever.
because if you really are oh so much more clever, you will suffer more fuel on that fire.
and also, thinking you're oh so much more clever, is improbably true. not that i'm saying truth's always derivable, or even aproachable, through simple statistical analysis, but... since we're always going on a little information, and the dangerousness of how little that information is, can be worsened by how much littler we make it by our confirmation-biasing, cognitive illusions, our slothful lazy hastey grasp on shortcuts, we dont even realise, we're doing it, we dont even realise how little we have, and we tell ourselves we have a lot, we tell ourselves as much as we have, is a lot of what there is, even to the extreme, that it's all there is. unwittingly, we become know it alls, with next to nothing. and we think we're the smarty-est.
there's no shame in the truth.
we're not that smart.
we're not as smart as we think we are. no shame in the truth, that we think we're smart, and that we think that's smarter than we are.
knowing this,
helps us get smarter.
wiser.
wise enough to continue learning.
wise enough to catch ourselves from short-handed thinking.
wise enough to see when we have, and wise enough eagerly accept that, and even point it out to others. wise enough to accept we'll likely never absolutely be beyond this, and even more likely are not beyond it right now, and so reapplies the humility introspective vigilance, not to identify as one who has risen above it, but to persist in plucking away and batting away all the times it has happened already, and all the times more oncoming.
"all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Me, often, but not often enough without vanity, not often enough really heeding what i (and socrates) mean by it.
#alliknowisiknownothing
#alliknowisiknownothingandsometimesiforgeteventhatmuch
still vulnerable to us-vs-them'ing. like you.
(ps, i forget where i got that link from, but thanks again to whoever shared it. ^ all that from merely first 20 minutes. .... lets see where it goes.)
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