Re:Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
by xtiansimon on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:05PM
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Add, “curiosity”. That gets in the way of automated/automatic thinking. Always eat the same foods, because what if you don’t like the food you buy/served? Then you go hungry (the classic mother, eat the food I make you or go hungry). Or, you waste other resources.
Automatically you get many other rules and reasoning,
If the food you eat doesn’t upset your stomach, don’t change—-what more do you need?
Why change, it’s all going to the same place in the end.
Unmoved and impenetrable to argument these shortcuts come with other formative logics.
If at all. If you subscribe to thinking in identity-terms for optimization benefits, don’t you get a whole host of other heuristics and shortcuts to ‘conscious thought’?
For one thing, ‘uncertainty’ can be reduced. It’s this or that. And politically, you can turn uncertainty into us/them.