The more people identify themselves as members of a political tribe and see their political beliefs as one or two dimensional the less they are going to be able to rationally reason about them. It reminds me of Vassar saying “People were worried about nuclear war, instead there was a memetic war and now most people are zombies who don’t really think”
I’m living in Berlin and Germany is generally more left then the US. Besides voting for the AntiAging party which isn’t either left or right I voted for center-left/left parties all my life and never center-right or farther right. At the same time I get into facebook debates where someone messaged me to thank me afterwards for defending the right.
I hold many of my political thoughts based on first-principle thinking and in the wide field of possible political options that doesn’t get me into an existing tribe. That doesn’t mean I’m always right but I’m not just following tribal forces.
I think the same is true for Scott Siskind. He manages to both vote Warren and then Biden while at the same time getting the New York Times trying to present him as right-wing. That’s happening because instead of being primarily driven by tribal instincts Scott does a lot of deep thinking about the positions that he holds.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a good way to teach people to get rid of their tribal politics identification that works well enough to simply give it to any aspiring rationalist.
The more people identify themselves as members of a political tribe and see their political beliefs as one or two dimensional the less they are going to be able to rationally reason about them. It reminds me of Vassar saying “People were worried about nuclear war, instead there was a memetic war and now most people are zombies who don’t really think”
I’m living in Berlin and Germany is generally more left then the US. Besides voting for the AntiAging party which isn’t either left or right I voted for center-left/left parties all my life and never center-right or farther right. At the same time I get into facebook debates where someone messaged me to thank me afterwards for defending the right.
I hold many of my political thoughts based on first-principle thinking and in the wide field of possible political options that doesn’t get me into an existing tribe. That doesn’t mean I’m always right but I’m not just following tribal forces.
I think the same is true for Scott Siskind. He manages to both vote Warren and then Biden while at the same time getting the New York Times trying to present him as right-wing. That’s happening because instead of being primarily driven by tribal instincts Scott does a lot of deep thinking about the positions that he holds.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a good way to teach people to get rid of their tribal politics identification that works well enough to simply give it to any aspiring rationalist.