Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
by uoaei on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:14PM
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As a rule of thumb for rationality, buckets are mental models -- tools -- and can be treated as such. Drawing a dichotomy, while incomplete, can be useful given the balance between accuracy and parsimony.
Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
by plaguepilled on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:17PM
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This is not rationality, this extrapolation on your part. It would be more rational to have requested sources, or provide your own.
For books, there's a fairly simple explanation for a mental divide: elitism. Maybe you correlate ability to memorize trivia (which tends to be plentiful in books trying to illustrate some overarching point) with "culturedness". Or maybe the correlation comes from name dropping prolific authors (common in humanities, because certain authors "represent" certain schools of thought). Etc.
In my personal experience, the book reading anecdote doesn't really hold because a lot of people I know simply have complex backgrounds (e.g. living large portions of their lives in two or more different countries) and that alone can bring a lot of color to discussions.