(June 5, 2021 at 8:03 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I've always been under the impression that if I had all the facts in my brain that another person does, connected in the same way they do, that I too would arrive at the same or similar conclusion as they have. The value of conversation, therefore, lies in uncovering what it is someone knows and how it's connected to better understand what they're concluding.
Wait... You mean "good faith dialogue aimed at increased mutual understanding"? I remember that. Whatever happened to that, I wonder.
Quote:I think we underestimate how much sense wrong ideas can make. They can be coherent, logical, and internally valid irrespective of being false. And perhaps they are moreso than right ideas.
Yes, I think so too.
Especially when the correct explanation for something is complex, or beyond the scope of what we've thought before. Then a wrong idea serves more comfortably.
Even something like Q-anon, which seems downright insane to people who aren't into it, has an internal logic. It fits extremely well with lots of truths, half-truths, and concepts which are important for people's self-image. Probably it was tailor-made to do so.
A lot of these lies that won't die, like the idea that there was a 1000-year Dark Age caused by Christianity, are just too satisfying to go away.
