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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

Edited 2 months ago
Magical thinking is a disease, a disease that leads people into disaster again and again.

It's the reason why 'stupid people's idea of a smart guy' types like Trump and Musk do so well - a person who is willing to lie through their teeth is always going to come off as more pithy, straight-forward and capable than somebody who is honest and caveats things with doubts.

Somebody would much rather believe that Musk has solved climate change + will send rockets to mars than accept he's a 2-bit scammer funded by daddy who's lied about every single aspect of his life and is frankly rather unintelligent.

Because then people would have to both accept that their magical thinking wasn't true (the story of the 'great tech boss genius' in this case), and worse, admit they were scammed.

People would pretty much rather admit to ANYTHING rather than admit that.

Sadly it's hard to fight against this nonsense when by definition 50% of the population have IQ of 100 or lower.
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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

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Not that, sadly, being intelligent protects against this. Smart people who as a result have something of an ego might be even less willing to admit they were wrong about something so fundamental.

Having said that, the brutal truth is types like Trump and Musk are mostly allowed to exist due to the stupid.
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