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The long-term consequences of misogyny - It’s as if America wasn’t the paradise the Right tries to tell us. A Gallup poll shows that a lot of young people want to escape our dystopia. For the seco...10 hours ago
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To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas - MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as well. ...1 day ago
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Is the Tech Really Ready For a Home Android - Recently the company 1X announced NEO, an in-home autonomous (sort of) android all purpose robot, for a cost of $20,000. This has been a vision of futuri...6 days ago
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song - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a-NRfXg1vFtueolqHBnurOHIAg51UDtL/view?usp=drive_link4 weeks ago
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Oameni Vrednici de Atentie - Oameni Vrednici de Atentie. Imi plac umanii care nu sunt anosti. Fiintele acelea care-si conecteaza limba la creier inainte de a spune ceva. Care nu deschi...5 weeks ago
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Multiplication of unlawful disjunctions - Charles B. writes: Apparently, birds are not considered wild animals by law. Reference here, where apparently feeding them in parks in permitted except if ...3 months ago
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Thanks for stopping by…. - I grew up in a wilderness area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in a town proudly proclaiming almost 300 citizens on its road sign. Life there focused on surv...6 years ago
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Guy in cheesy old Scientology promo looks kinda like Josh Timonen - Fast forward to about 3:00. I never met Josh so I can't say if it's him or not. Would be a few years younger in the promo.
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Couldn't all religions be classified as (more or less) dangerous cults? Surely the choice of one or the other is something of a false dichotomy? :-)
ReplyDeleteI hope your wrist is healing well :-)
Cult status is always relative to all the other religious sects competing for members in some community. Large, dominant sects can't be cults.
ReplyDeleteIn our environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, being right wasn't enough. Our ancestors also had to be quick. And so our brains come wired with a few shortcuts or rules of thumb that impose a feeling of the right answer before we've even got the slide rule out. "The majority are correct" is one such shortcut. "The alpha male is correct" is another.
We expect humans to accept the assertions of their enveloping culture without criticism. Few have the time or capacity to examine the basis of what passes for conventional wisdom. But as a corollary anyone who embraces a minority view --particularly if that viewpoint imposes significant cost or risk-- is expected to double and triple check the basis of their belief.
Lucky thing the majority and the alpha male are daft often enough else we'd never have evolved the capacity for science.