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		<title>Illustration: Holding Opposing Ideas in One&#8217;s Mind Simultaneously</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1858243384407715974" target="_blank"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter  wp-image-41070" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-17-at-3.37.35 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 11 17 at 3.37.35 PM" width="696" height="543" title="Illustration: Holding Opposing Ideas in One&#039;s Mind Simultaneously 1" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-17-at-3.37.35 PM.png 924w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-17-at-3.37.35 PM-300x234.png 300w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-17-at-3.37.35 PM-768x598.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px"/></a></p>
<p>Entertaining conversation illustrating this quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “[T]he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.&#8221; As Bill Maher argues, McDonalds tastes good even though it it not healthy food. BOTH of these things are true. Same thing for ice cream and many other foods. Most important these days, we can love other people even though we disagree strongly with some of their beliefs and opinions. Really.</p>
<p>But in modern times, many people are not admitting to things they know to be true because it is not approved by their respective tribes. We need to stop allowing emotions and social pressure to prevent us from saying things we know to be true. Only then will we be able to have meaningful conversations with each other.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve written repeatedly, embracing membership in a tribe reduces one&#8217;s IQ by 50 points.</p>
<p>Additional note: I think Casey Means is courageous and brilliant. I highly recommend her new book, Good Energy.&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What it is Like to Start Seeing the Progressive Left for What it is.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://x.com/playteaux1/status/1855586666989138156?s=43" target="_blank">Fascinating video.</a> This woman recently started seeing the DNC and progressive left for what they are. She describes the experience of scales falling from her eyes.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/playteaux1/status/1855586666989138156?s=43" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-41008" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-10.47.04 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 11 10 at 10.47.04 PM" width="487" height="627" title="What it is Like to Start Seeing the Progressive Left for What it is. 2" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-10.47.04 PM.png 914w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-10.47.04 PM-233x300.png 233w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-10.47.04 PM-796x1024.png 796w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-10.47.04 PM-768x988.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px"/></a></p>
<p>I created a transcript of her 3-minute video:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">I feel like I have a unique perspective with this whole election thing. Because I used to be very, very far left, like I was one of the people having a fucking mental breakdown in 2016 when he won, right? And I didn&#8217;t even like him up until six months ago, when it became very obvious that they were staging a coup and tried to assassinate him. And then some shit started clicking. So I&#8217;m still very new to this whole side of things. But the thing is, when I was very far left, like, radically far left, I thought I knew what was going on. I genuinely believed I was informed. I thought I knew better than everybody else, and that&#8217;s what these people think, too.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">And the thing is I would get so triggered and so angry when people would question me because I didn&#8217;t actually know what the hell I was talking about. I thought I did, but really I didn&#8217;t actually know any policies. I didn&#8217;t actually know any politics. All I actually knew was what I had seen online, in mainstream media, and because everybody was saying, I just assumed it had to be right, right. And I think where a lot of this comes from is like, people just don&#8217;t &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>About Our Societal Death Spiral . . .</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1810526546681053615" target="_blank">Gad Saad writes:</a></p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1810526546681053615" target="_blank"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter  wp-image-40129" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.28.24 AM-1024x568.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 07 09 at 10.28.24 AM" width="620" height="344" title="About Our Societal Death Spiral . . . 4" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.28.24 AM-1024x568.png 1024w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.28.24 AM-300x166.png 300w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.28.24 AM-768x426.png 768w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.28.24 AM.png 1074w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px"/></a></p>
<blockquote><p>A fundamental question that I ask people when I&#8217;m gauging their intellectual honesty is to describe for me what the evidence would need to look like in order for them to alter a given position that they hold. With that in mind, is there any reality that would cause the West to snap out of its parasitic ideological rapture and implement the necessary cataclysmic auto-corrective measures? If yes, we must still have some hope to hold on to. If not, it is going to be a painful death spiral.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s start by trying to convince people to use basic induction to convince them that A = A. That would be a good start. It&#8217;s the basis for the Rule of Law.&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Asch Conformity Experiments Confirmed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/antidepressant-use-across-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STEVE STEWART-WILLIAMS:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Not everything you were taught in intro psych was false! Solomon Asch’s famous conformity experiments have once again successfully replicated. For the classic length-of-line experiment, participants conformed 33% of the time: very close to the original rate. For political opinions, they conformed 38% of the time. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294325" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Other related articles on this website:</p>
<p><a href="https://dangerousintersection.org/2006/08/15/why-you-need-to-be-the-one-to-speak-up/">Why you need to be the one to speak up</a></p>
<p><a href="https://dangerousintersection.org/?s=why+you+need+to+be+the+one+to+speak+up">Brett Weinstein Discusses the Importance of Speaking Up</a>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Video Synopsis of Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s Newest Book: &#8220;The Anxious Generation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s newest book, <em>The Anxious Generation</em>, is out. I bought a copy but haven&#8217;t read it (though I&#8217;ve watched several interview of Haidt and he makes a compelling case). The statistics are sobering:</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kiteandkeymedia/status/1780573171835433402" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-39707" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.09.43 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 04 17 at 10.09.43 PM" width="405" height="450" title="Video Synopsis of Jonathan Haidt&#039;s Newest Book: &#34;The Anxious Generation&#34; 5" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.09.43 PM.png 1032w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.09.43 PM-270x300.png 270w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.09.43 PM-922x1024.png 922w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.09.43 PM-768x853.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px"/></a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1780762722440733025" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter  wp-image-39711" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.21.12 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 04 17 at 10.21.12 PM" width="408" height="519" title="Video Synopsis of Jonathan Haidt&#039;s Newest Book: &#34;The Anxious Generation&#34; 6" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.21.12 PM.png 1024w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.21.12 PM-236x300.png 236w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.21.12 PM-804x1024.png 804w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.21.12 PM-768x978.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px"/></a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1780762722440733025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here&#8217;s a 7-minute video synopsis</a> of Haidt&#8217;s book to whet your appetite:</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kiteandkeymedia/status/1780573171835433402" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-39708" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.12.19 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 04 17 at 10.12.19 PM" width="1060" height="1154" title="Video Synopsis of Jonathan Haidt&#039;s Newest Book: &#34;The Anxious Generation&#34; 7" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.12.19 PM.png 1060w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.12.19 PM-276x300.png 276w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.12.19 PM-941x1024.png 941w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-10.12.19 PM-768x836.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px"/></a>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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