Many people act like they're open minded but are often just open minded towards new trends that get pushed in their media outlets.
They often dismiss any new ideas that oppose the status quo or what the paradigm is at the time.
Because the corporate messaging presents itself as the refined and righteous progressive position. They keep people under control by making people believe that they are happy and righteous and open minded where they are. When really it specifically closes off outside perspectives as evil.
You're right. It's mainly do to the incredibly sophisticated power of msm to propagandize. There also seems to be a lot of dumbing down, though, via schools and chemicals.
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I'd say the US actually has almost the opposite problem - people are too quick to accept outlandish theories.
It's like whenever anything is unknown, hard to prove, or difficult to understand, suddenly ALL views on the subject are considered equally valid - they don't need to have any logical basis whatsoever.
Just look at the popularity of conspiracy theories surrounding UFOs, flat Earth, bigfoot, illuminati, holocaust/climate change deniers, Elvis being alive, QAnon and Trump, New Age mysticism, Christianity and so on... Noone outside the US takes that crap seriously.
I'm sure it must be partly due to the prevalence of Christianity - critical thinking and religious belief are largely mutually exclusive, so it must be deeply ingrained in the American psyche by now to trust faith over reason - but that can't be the only cause (there are plenty of other religious states not nearly so crazy as the US).
I guess scientists are always the bad guys in fiction. There's obviously the familiar "evil genius" stereotype, but even the well-intentioned scientist is always accidentally unleashing chaos on the world, whether it be in the form of hungry dinosaurs (Jurassic Park), a deadly virus (28 Days Later, Resident Evil, etc), aliens (Species, Alien series), monsters (Frankenstein) or super-intelligent sharks (Deep Blue Sea). How many movies have scientists as the heroes? Not many. Even fewer if you disregard the ones that just have a smoking hot female "scientist" like Denise Richards in whatever crap Bond movie it was. No, insted you get sci-fi movies like "Armageddon", where a team has to land a spacecraft on an Earthbound meteor, and yet the real heroes are a bunch of dumb, roughneck oil rig workers.
It's no wonder people are so quick to believe that Covid is a man made virus that somehow escaped from a laboratory.
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I made a Microsoft file for you to read.
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There has to be a balance between mental flexibility and rigidity.
Anything out of balance is bad.
Truth is a small diamond in a huge pile of rocks.
If you don't filter out the rocks you won't find the diamond.
Some rocks are pretty shiny but after close inspection and comparison you can tell which is a diamond and which is a shiny rock.
A shiny. Lie.
@MuddyMole Really well said and thought out.
Mental muscles are much like physical ones; they need practice and exertion to reach their full capacity. Most people find it easier to simply let the zeitgeist make that decision for them.
And while social media may make that louder than it's been prior, this is not a new thing- for most of human existence, the social cohesion that comes from everyone holding the same beliefs meant it was a huge bio-social advantage to be prone to it.
Thinking is a rare skill. Most people only know how to mimic others and retain information they've been fed. Ask a hypothetical question and watch them either try to get around the question or outright refuse to answer cause "Well that would never happen."
Nobody wants to put in the effort to really pay attention to something and figure it out. They do not teach critical thinking in school. They are too busy indoctrinating the kids.
If it isn;t on social media most kids don't have a clue.
You think this is a new way people act? I don't, the majority of people have always tried to fit in.. at points this has been essential to survive, at least had a much higher chance of having a good, comfortable life if you live in a group/society.
They already have a pre-conceived idea of if something will work or not.
Well I'm not very open-minded and the reason being is because if someone's got to try and sell you on something it may not be for your best interest. And the key word is sell
Easy answer: fear of what people think, fear of change due to comfort.
Fear of the unknown or passed experiences says they already don't like whatever it may be... or lazy XD
Most have too low a mental capacity to analyse them, are transgender, or both.
I don't see why everything has to be directly practical, when abstract/theoretical thinking (brainstorming) first helps massively - you get to narrow in on what can sensibly be done without using your arms and legs and petrol and tyres to run around like crazy while considering conceptually. It's s great method.
If it’s against their political views it’s easy to dismiss it.
I can assure you that I am very much anti-establishment
Nowadays? This has always been the case throughout the history of humanity.
Systematic and generational training.
They're pussies.
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