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I meant where they get their information. If people get their opinions from limited personal experience and lack the wisdom to contextualize it in a field of probabilities and counter examples, then they get stupid opinions.
Most people get their opinion from somewhere or someone. You're usually stuck addressing that, not the person themselves, because they don't understand their beliefs, they Trust someone else has a deeper understanding.
If you replace someone's belief without making them doubt their previous belief, they'll only feel NPC frown cognitive dissonance. You have to make them doubt themselves and the ones they trust, then trust you, then you tell them the truth after they beg you for it.
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[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha ago
I meant where they get their information. If people get their opinions from limited personal experience and lack the wisdom to contextualize it in a field of probabilities and counter examples, then they get stupid opinions.
Most people get their opinion from somewhere or someone. You're usually stuck addressing that, not the person themselves, because they don't understand their beliefs, they Trust someone else has a deeper understanding.
If you replace someone's belief without making them doubt their previous belief, they'll only feel NPC frown cognitive dissonance. You have to make them doubt themselves and the ones they trust, then trust you, then you tell them the truth after they beg you for it.
[–] MarauderShields 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That last paragraph is right on the nose. So to speak.
[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's how John Oliver does his show every night. Doubt, mockery, build trust, brainwash. There's a great greentext about it.