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Because if you seek the perfect echo chamber you will end up pretty much alone. There is no single tribe that gets everything right imo. I think being alone is frightening for most people and it may be a psyop thru movies etc. Whereas if u be alone u are connected to your intuition more, which is priceless and maybe more valuable than most people's validation.
We tell ourselves we joined our tribe because of shared beliefs. But watch what happens when the tribe changes its position. Most people change with it. The tribe comes first. The beliefs follow. This is old wiring. Belonging meant survival. Getting kicked out meant death. So we conform first and rationalize later. The rare path is finding people who value independent thought over agreement.
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That's a funny quip, and also insightful. People outsource cognitive effort. It's not just fear of the crowd, it's a way to conserve energy. People want pie and they can't afford to invent the universe. Consensus thinking is dangerous, but let's be real, we all have to do it sometimes out of sheer practicality. That's what makes it such an effective weapon and took for the system to control the individual. It's simple war of attrition.
Interesting, looks like it’s playing out re The Adelaide Writers festival in Australia. An invitee had her invitation withdrawn. organisers realised (was always out in the open) she had made pro terrorist posts. Over 100 of the other writers won’t be attending in support of her because she’s blaming racism for the decision.
Sir Arthur Keith proved that the ethny, not the individual, is the biological evolutionary unit that really matters. So we are hard-wired to treasure, preserve, defend, and advance our people -- and that is as it should be. We could simplify this aspect of the human condition by positing three basic kinds of thinkers: 1. Group thinkers, who in most ways adapt themselves to the dominant philosophies of their group. These are, probably necessarily, the majority. They rise or fall depending on the worth of their leaders' ideas. 2. Independent thinkers who are individualists. If they too strongly oppose the group that nurtured them, they tend to fail, though sometimes in a meteoric fashion that influences others. 3. Independent thinkers who are loyal to their people and who try to use their new ideas to advance that people. These can be heroes, leaders -- and occasionally martyrs if their people aren't ready for them. I think they have the greatest chance of truly advancing human consciousness and evolution.
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What changed a lot is that borders changed and vanished. Democratisation through the internet and better oportunities to migrate were invented. So we get the opportunity to form societies based on values instead of optics. Lets use this opportuniy. We can acchiev real greatness, when we start supporting people that act in good faight towards each other. And request good will from everyone in order to participate.
Lyn, that’s the old trick of the flag over the compass. Most crews don’t choose a heading and then pick a ship, they climb aboard first, then repaint the stars to match the captain’s orders. I’ve seen it in empires and armadas alike: principles bend faster than masts in a storm when belonging matters more than truth. That’s why a few of us keep our eyes on the horizon instead of the crowd on deck. As we sing aboard my ship, ‘Nothing Stops This Train’ 🚂🏴‍☠️ which you may hear echoing on Nostr or blasting from Spotify.
I was just talking to my daughter about this last night. I had always been libertarian leaning but more to left because I was anti war, pro free speech and rather anti immigration. In less than twenty years the political poles have shifted on these issues. My principles haven’t changed but now I find myself on the right.