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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by cozuya on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:32AM (#25929404)
What's the Occam's Razor of "everyone smart enough to be in advanced learning seems to have the same political bias", do you think?
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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by mellosouls on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:46PM (#25931288)
Anecdotal, but many of the stupidest, most blinkered people I've ever met are those with "advanced learning".
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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by Izkata on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:33PM (#25938216)
There was an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that addressed this something along the lines of, "the smarter you are, the easier it is to talk yourself into doublethink".
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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by aleister_777 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:11PM (#25930739)
They are all drinking from the same self-righteous well of "morality". The fact that they consider themselves "advanced" also seems to translate that they are also "correct" in all matters, regardless of their expertise.
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Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab by cozuya on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:38PM (#25931161)
I'm pretty sure the simplest explanation doesn't involve so many double quotes.
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