Are you the monster you want to be?

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Jor, you're not a monster. Sometimes you might come off strong, but not a monster. Don't beat yourself up I think you've mellowed in our brief time of exchanges together.

The sad truth about mud westling with pigs -- at some point you come to the realization that the pig is enjoying it.

That's hilariously ironic with a comment I made to some others recently. You just have no idea.

Meantime , https://www.popsci.com/radical-politics-metacognition

University College London offers some insight into one characteristic of those who hold extreme beliefs—their metacognition, or ability to evaluate whether or not they might be wrong.
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“Widening polarization about political, religious, and scientific issues threatens open societies, leading to entrenchment of beliefs, reduced mutual understanding, and a pervasive negativity surrounding the very idea of consensus,” the researchers write. Understanding the role that metacognition plays in this polarization may help us step back from it.

So extremists are galvanized by their own extremism, who knew? j/k seriously though, I find it fascinating the correlations between extreme views and emotionalism, and selective bias and a lessening of metacognition to reinforce already skewed beliefs. I don't know why we can't just laugh away extremists, when they claim the sky is chartreuse, oh wait that's because in application it holds real influence over societies. Whether you are your own personal monster or whether anyone can be, it's still on the viewer how they react to that not the monster.