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webstar1000
UPDATE: I had to delete this guy from my friends list. We were even starting to become pals. His other 'nut job' believers have taken some time away from FB while rants and raves. He REALLY thinks that Biden was arrested Monday night. That he is being allowed to make public appearances and Trump is still in office (Military is in control for now until it is public) . He says the United States of America is no longer and is now something else. The list goes on with silly shit... YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND.. this guy was a normal, everyday Joe and hung with all my pals. He literlly has lost his mind with this Trump mentality.
Here’s the thing about your friend – he thinks that he’s being entirely rational and reasonable in his believes. He thinks they are the result of evidence and logic. And, they might be.
The problem is that if logic and reasoning is fed by misinformation, then you get crazy conclusions. The reasoning ability might be fine; but no amount of logic can overcome the golden rule of garbage in, garbage out. And if you filter the information you receive based on the conclusions of previous misinformation, then it becomes a perpetual cycle. And the people with the crazy conclusions can’t understand why everybody else is so lacking in logic and reasoning to see what’s right in front of them, when it’s not the reasoning ability that is the issue.
This is something we are all vulnerable to. We all think our conclusions are the result of logic and reason. But we all filter the information we receive based on the conclusions we’ve already made. And we continue to trust those conclusions, because we feel those conclusions are ours, the result of our own reasoning ability and intelligence. To doubt those conclusions is to doubt our own ability to understand the world.
That’s why the congressional Republicans supporting the myth of electoral fraud, and the illegitimacy of Biden‘s presidency, was so dangerous. Of course it led to insurrection; it was feeding misinformation into a group of people who were pre-conditioned to believe it.