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from the By-the-inch,-it's-a-cinch-but-a-mile-takes-a-while dept.
We've previously discussed ( https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/12/11/1847236 ) how it becomes impossible to reverse the polarization of a community once their differences become too great, and how that plays out both here at SN and in the wider world. Science Blog has a piece ( https://scienceblog.com/527745/computer-model-seeks-to-explain-the-spread-of-misinformation-and-suggest-counter-measures/ ) about a PLOS paper titled "Cognitive cascades: How to model (and potentially counter) the spread of fake news" ( https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261811 ) which uses an interesting computer model to explore how this actually happens.
The model demonstrated that if the new information is too much at odds with a person's existing belief, it will be ignored. Furthermore, if that belief is connected with the person's identity, their current belief will be strengthened as a defense against cognitive dissonance. Interestingly, though, a succession of new information that gradually nudge the person to adjust their beliefs can, over time, cause the person to adopt a belief that is very different from the one they started with. This sounds like how psy-ops manipulate targets to accept extreme views.
What was the gradual change of ideas that have led national political parties to be ever more different from one another, and who fed them those messages?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @10:30PM (4 children)
> (socialism has always turned dystopian, and there is no reason to believe it wont again)
Just a friendly note to qzm (3260):
Time to read up on the Nordic countries, highly socialistic and for the most part doing just fine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @11:02PM (3 children)
Rightwing puds fon't see any difference between communism and socialusm. To be fair lots of dictatorships have tried to sell themselves as socialust when they were really just authoritarian or full blown fascist.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @02:12AM (1 child)
People who believe in Marxism are like the young girls who believe that her boyfriend will only stick the head in. Neither understands the lie until they've been thoroughly shafted.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 17 2022, @03:46AM
Define "Marxism" for us, please? Marx's problem is he's a natural born critic, meaning he's dead-on right about what the problems are but not who you want to ask for solutions to them, is all.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @08:56PM
and in the US we were always taught that Socialism is just Communism-lite, by the capitalist Jews, of course. The same Jews that funded the oh-so-anti-capitalist Jews in Russia who murdered 10's of millions of White Russians in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Holodomor.