the “unwilling” camp, which just has no real incentive to be informed
Ah, an excellent word—“incentive”.
I agree that there are large swathes of people who use “hurray us, boo them” rhetoric purely to signal virtue and allegiance to their tribe. The issue is that they do this precisely because they have appropriate incentives—and providing them with additional information without changing the incentives is unlikely to do much.
In fact, stopping reciting the “our enemies are spawn of darkness” narrative is likely to be interpreted as a signal of disloyalty to the tribe with potentially dire social consequences.
Ah, an excellent word—“incentive”.
I agree that there are large swathes of people who use “hurray us, boo them” rhetoric purely to signal virtue and allegiance to their tribe. The issue is that they do this precisely because they have appropriate incentives—and providing them with additional information without changing the incentives is unlikely to do much.
In fact, stopping reciting the “our enemies are spawn of darkness” narrative is likely to be interpreted as a signal of disloyalty to the tribe with potentially dire social consequences.
By the way, are you familiar with the Ideological Turing Test? It’s a related idea.