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comment by steve
steve  ·  1370 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mike Pence: There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’

People are going to believe what they want. Even now. It’s scary.





mk  ·  1370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Most people are engineered to follow. Few are engineered to understand.

steve  ·  1370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We’re deeply emotional beings and it’s easy to let that emotion overtake logic and reason.

mk  ·  1370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think that's it.

I would say that the feeling is what reinforces the hard-coded behavior to assimilate. I do not think you need to appeal to people emotionally to win them over, if that were the case, it would be difficult to find people to man the gas chambers. I believe that if the majority of people are doing something, then it will quickly feel right to most individuals after they have been added to the group.

ButterflyEffect  ·  1370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is where social media needs to be blown up. If you live your life virtually and everyone on your Facebook page is saying the same thing...well...