The myth of meritocracy does so much heavy lifting when it comes ideologically justifying this shit show of a country. I'm reminded of this article about self-validating belief systems, and how they're surprisingly epistemically resilient despite how they seem obviously false to those who aren't indoctrinated into them. A great deal of rationalizing goes on to preserve the ego and mitigate cognitive dissonance, and belief systems tend to evolve mechanisms for self-preservation in the face of contrary evidence by exploiting biases and fallacies our stupid meat brains are almost incapable of avoiding.
You can probably find a free copy somewhere, I'm assuming this is nerd shit and most people won't actually read it.
I don't want to summarize the entire article, but it's a pretty interesting read, and while it focuses on cults/Woo and other ideological oddities, I think it's painfully obvious that liberalism's defenders are engaging in the same behavior as their beliefs about the world are proven false by events day after day.
The myth of meritocracy does so much heavy lifting when it comes ideologically justifying this shit show of a country. I'm reminded of this article about self-validating belief systems, and how they're surprisingly epistemically resilient despite how they seem obviously false to those who aren't indoctrinated into them. A great deal of rationalizing goes on to preserve the ego and mitigate cognitive dissonance, and belief systems tend to evolve mechanisms for self-preservation in the face of contrary evidence by exploiting biases and fallacies our stupid meat brains are almost incapable of avoiding.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2011.579420
You can probably find a free copy somewhere, I'm assuming this is nerd shit and most people won't actually read it.
I don't want to summarize the entire article, but it's a pretty interesting read, and while it focuses on cults/Woo and other ideological oddities, I think it's painfully obvious that liberalism's defenders are engaging in the same behavior as their beliefs about the world are proven false by events day after day.
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