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Re: Michael Huemer - The Irrationality of Politics
Old 03-05-2012, 05:21 PM   #3
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In order to overcome this reduction on personal identity, people search out a new identity in the masses. They find small groups of like-minded people and then isolate themselves in the group, afraid to move from it because to do so would leave them alone again in a sea of interconnected billions. This is true of modern politics, "progressives" and "tea parties", but also truein any setting where people are unnaturally thrown to together in large numbers ("cliques" in schools, for example).
I would agree with this. I'll check out that video series. The problem is that there is no good way to convince people to question their beliefs....I think this is a difficult thing to fix, if not completely impossible.
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