Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Video Roundtable Discussion: Why Do People Believe Stupid Things?

I saw this interesting video from Lew Rockwell Blog's Charles Burris who writes
Sit back and enjoy this rousing Boiling Frogs Post Roundtable discussion where James Corbett, Guillermo Jimenez and Sibel Edmonds ask (and attempt to answer) the vexing question of “why people believe stupid things?” Is it willful ignorance? Moral cowardice? Deference to authority figures’ palatable lies and tasty untruths? Intellectual sloth or cognitive laziness? Or is it a self-imposed mental imprisonment of not wanting to face the inconvenient and unpleasant reality outside their comfort zone matrix? So put on your critical thinking cap and join in the reflective conversation.
I may add: is it because of social desirability bias or groupthink? Is it because of the law of least effort? And or is it because of brainwashing?

1 comment:

theyenguy said...

An inquiring mind asks, is it because 50% of the population is antisocial in nature and the other 50% capitulate to the top dogs?

Or is it possibly because popular culture has such a control over people that people have no desire or capability to establish values which virtues and ethics?

The world is at the peak of the paradigm and age of liberalism, which is pivoting into that of authoritarianism.

At peak liberalism Television Programming, like Walking Dead, Social Media, like Facebook, and Sports Entertainment, like WWE, depreciate the value of other people, and detract from values which support the development of ethics and virtues. Depreciation of others and the obliteration of values commenced with TV programs like MASH and continued on with Beavis & Buthead.