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Re:Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation by bezmenov on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:18PM (#23902468)
If all of your beliefs line up into neat little bundles, you should be suspicious because they’re prepackaged and put together.

The vast majority of society have prescribed views, that is their views are derived from their group identity.

Why is this an issue? Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth.

The question isn’t to tease out a controversial answer, rather to assert an individual is not a mindless ideologue.

Re:Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation by cygx on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:27PM (#23902535)
Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth.

It can get tiring to talk to yet another person that will explain to you how the theory of relativity is wrong when there's open house at the physics department, though...