[–] deathcomesilent 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If a person does what you just described, they simply don't care about, or don't understand the consequences of that action.
If we are being honest here, the human problem lies with self esteem, and the systemic issue lies with platforms like voat and reddit. Uncensored fourms certainly do more good than not, but they also certainly put people in a situation where they are willing to be amoral as long as they get some arbitrary reward like kudos, or props, or karma, or ccp, or whatever.
This simple concept is why I will never take info without (at least) 2 sources.
[–] RandomNumberGod 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Because for a working-class laborer, feeding their kids is more important than intellectual pursuits. In order to understand that your immediate needs are best fulfilled by resolving the larger problems of your society, you must spend the effort necessary to understand the deeper mechanisms at work, but for your mind to engage in such frivolous pursuits, it demands that your more essential needs are fulfilled first. It's a vicious circle, where the poor never attain political consciousness because they are too busy trying to get by. This theory captures the idea pretty well.
Of course, there isn't a strict flowchart that your brain follows, there exist both natural thinkers and the intellectually lazy.
Agree with what you say, but that isn't really what I was questioning. I don't believe you need to be focused on intellectual pursuits or have attained some political consciousness to realise that you don't know something. Being self-aware is not an educational thing - in reality accepting that you are not an authority on something does not need to be learned. So I guess like some posters have said before it comes down to a need to maintain self esteem (with an inherent need for belonging if you will), even though it's based on flimsy opinion pieces that people choose to believe without thought.
[–] deathcomesilent 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If you are being purposefully ironic, you are my hero.
[–] Confusion 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
All our lives, we are assaulted by information, far more than we can totally comprehend. If we were to truly critically analysis every piece of knowledge we read, learn and see, we would be driven insane. There are limitations on the human brain, and parroting the opinions of others is a "shortcut" we all learn to get by through daily life. Rather than calculate every thought, we just copy the pre-calculated thoughts of others, and store them away for later.
This isn't to be shamed, it is a fundamental flaw of our biology that can't be helped. What is, is people who VOICE these parroted thoughts. We can't help absorb bias knowledge from the media, especially on subject we know nothing about, so we sort it for later, but sadly people are lazy, so when they bring up this knowledge from storage they don't use critical thought, they just repeat it. They should be asking where they learned it, how and why, and if they can't be bothered to do this, just be quiet, but sadly people just want to speak their opinion, even on things they know nothing about. Could be many factors for this, but I believe people aren't properly taught to do this. Schools teach to parrot knowledge, critical thought is taught in college, and really only in STEM. Most people never get the training.
[–] Vigilantica ago
Because lefties and righties are in abundance, and moderates are a rare breed nowadays.