Or, phrased slightly differently: verbal thinking increases the surface area through which you can get hacked.
This doesn’t seem quite right, because it is also possible to have an unconscious or un-verbalized sense that, e.g., you’re not supposed to “discriminate” against “religions”, or that “authority” is bad and any rebellion against “authority” is good, etc. If bringing such attitudes to conscious awareness and verbalizing them allows you to examine and discard them, have you excised a vulnerability or installed one? Not clear.
If bringing such attitudes to conscious awareness and verbalizing them allows you to examine and discard them, have you excised a vulnerability or installed one? Not clear.
Possibly both, but one thing breaks the symmetry: it is on average less bad to be hacked by distant forces than by close ones.
This doesn’t seem quite right, because it is also possible to have an unconscious or un-verbalized sense that, e.g., you’re not supposed to “discriminate” against “religions”, or that “authority” is bad and any rebellion against “authority” is good, etc. If bringing such attitudes to conscious awareness and verbalizing them allows you to examine and discard them, have you excised a vulnerability or installed one? Not clear.
Possibly both, but one thing breaks the symmetry: it is on average less bad to be hacked by distant forces than by close ones.