Not to mention Biden actually got a ton of stuff done. The shills tend to move the goalposts seamlessly from “he did only terrible things and all on purpose” to “well okay he tried to do tons of good stuff but the Republicans blocked him and that’s his fault” to “well okay never mind your 10 good things he got done what about this 1 bad thing” to “the 1 bad thing definitely was the worst thing in the world and I refuse to listen to your qualifications to it” to silence or insults, as the conversation progresses. This “did nothing on purpose” is just the first stage from the first account in the conversation.
It’s a weird little quirk of human psychology that if someone’s not paying all that much attention, that kind of kettle logic actually works quite well to produce the engineered result. It hits the “Biden bad” button from multiple angles and the “System 1” part doesn’t really notice that the different falsehoods contradict each other. It just knows they come from multiple sources and angles.
Not to mention Biden actually got a ton of stuff done. The shills tend to move the goalposts seamlessly from “he did only terrible things and all on purpose” to “well okay he tried to do tons of good stuff but the Republicans blocked him and that’s his fault” to “well okay never mind your 10 good things he got done what about this 1 bad thing” to “the 1 bad thing definitely was the worst thing in the world and I refuse to listen to your qualifications to it” to silence or insults, as the conversation progresses. This “did nothing on purpose” is just the first stage from the first account in the conversation.
It’s a weird little quirk of human psychology that if someone’s not paying all that much attention, that kind of kettle logic actually works quite well to produce the engineered result. It hits the “Biden bad” button from multiple angles and the “System 1” part doesn’t really notice that the different falsehoods contradict each other. It just knows they come from multiple sources and angles.
Yes, I completely agree.
I haven’t seen that book before, is it good? Worth reading?
Boy howdy, yes it is, absolutely
100% worth the read.
Daniel Kahneman, who wrote thinking fast and slow, died today, 3/27/24.