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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: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Sunday January 16 2022, @11:09PM (4 children)
That there is some first-class mis-information! Well done, qzm! So nazi racist fascism is just "dissent", much like attempting to overthrow the Constitution of the United States? Not just the "Big Lie", but the "Very Big Lie"! VBL!!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @02:09AM (3 children)
You are the master of disingenuity, aren't you? (lol, spellchecker really doesn't like that word. [collinsdictionary.com])
Cancel culture cancels people for much, much lesser 'infractions' than preaching Nazi doctrine. How's your critical race crusade going? Rational people put CRT and Antifa right up there beside Nietzsche's fairy tales.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday January 17 2022, @06:37AM (2 children)
What did you have in mind? White supremacy? Denying women control over their own bodies? Threatening public health and the lives of others because you are stupid? Defending exploitation of the "lower" classes? Supporting genocide, of indigenous people? Or deadly violence by law enforcement against minorities? I'm not saying you're racist, but, . . .
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @04:32PM (1 child)
all bullshit of course
you, aristarchus, toss terms like fascist and nazi around to the point the terms become meaningless
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday January 17 2022, @09:30PM
You lack of vocabulary does not consititute an obligation for the rest of us to have to explain the meanings of words every single time they are apropos!