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Intelligent people are as prejudiced as everyone else. But they’re better at arguing.
It’s not a coincidence, therefore, that intellectuals/elites/Front Row/Belmont prize argumentation above content; i.e., *how people argue* above *what they’re trying to say.* https://twitter.com/psychrabble/status/1194421171711819777
It’s not a coincidence, therefore, that intellectuals/elites/Front Row/Belmont prize argumentation above content; i.e., *how people argue* above *what they’re trying to say.* https://twitter.com/psychrabble/status/1194421171711819777
Compounding the problem is the fact that intellectuals/elites/Front Row/Belmont tend toward WEIRD analytical thinking which sees a world full of objects, some of which happen to walk around on two legs, rather than a world full of relationships. It misses the forest for the trees
Intellectuals/elites/Front Row/Belmont/academia is stuck in the mindset of homo economicus.
It fails to see that politics is more like religion than like shopping.
It fails at concilience: https://quillette.com/2018/04/08/academias-consilience-crisis/
It fails to see that politics is more like religion than like shopping.
It fails at concilience: https://quillette.com/2018/04/08/academias-consilience-crisis/
And because it fails at consilience it also fails to see major trends behind current events. Even @JonHaidt is not immune to this, having missed possible THE most important causal factor of The Coddling of the American Mind. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/26/what-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-fails-to-spell-out-book-review/
And because they fail to see the problem intellectuals/elites/Front Row/Belmont/Academics tend to double down on the very things that cause partisan animosity in the first place.
They are the main drivers of the wedge that is splitting the culture like an ax splitting wood.
They are the main drivers of the wedge that is splitting the culture like an ax splitting wood.
It’s a textbook example of a Catch-22: a problem for which the solution is prevented by the circumstances that caused it.
Even my favorite group @HdxAcademy seems to be stuck inside the intellectual/elite/Front Row/Belmont/Academic bubble of WEIRD analytical thinking; spending way more effort on arguing, persuading, arguing, telling, others to open their minds than on listening and opening its own.
Increasing intellectual/viewpoint diversity while staying inside the bubble seems to me to be like fixing the integrity of a rusted structure by painting it.
I know HxA members are earnest and want only the best for everyone, no offense intended, but the effort seems to be more about assuaging one’s need to “do something” and feel better about one’s self than about actually diagnosing real root causes and then addressing them.
