Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-14-2020, 07:36 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So let me be clear.  You live in the CNN bubble, among people who have absolutely no idea what's going on, but sit there are tell each other how clever and intelligent you are, and how the people outside are stupid racist white supremacists.  I listen to all the channels, so I know.  CNN is a sewer, and being in the CNN bubble means that most Trump supporters are far more intelligent than you.

Well, again, if you have a political world view, how whacky you are hasn’t that much to do with intelligence.  If you buy into the CNN perspective or the Fox perspective, you are going to be called an idiot by those who have bought into the opposite regardless.  It does matter if you have a scientific world view, that you check what you are told against reality.  From that perspective, you have do do a lot of fact checking if you get into Fox or Trump.

Your ignoring or disregarding facts that disagree with your ideology is part of this effect.  If the facts disagree with the ideology, the ideology censors the facts out.  This is not stupidity.  This is how humans use worldviews as a short cut to arrive at solutions to problems or versions of how reality works.  If you can view others as not being stupid, but as having conflicting worldviews, you have the problem of considering how warped your own worldview is. If you make the effort to understand how other's worldviews came into existence, of how their culture solved problems using a particular perspective, you can modify your own worldview to accept the wisdom, with or without caveats that it works better or ill under various conditions that one culture might see regularly, but another does not.

But if you stick with one perspective, and call any other perspective stupid, you are going to miss a lot.