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Re:When America First Dropped Acid by matrix87 on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:47PM (#39094414)
At the end of the day, you can either see a beautiful thing and share it with a bunch of people. Or you can see an ugly mechanistic thing and think that you're smarter than the people seeing the beautiful thing

I don't think whichever one you see is a choice either, more like the yanny vs laurel thing

At one point I made the same argument you make. Now I don't see it that way. And I feel much better honestly

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Re:When America First Dropped Acid by nwiswell on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:54PM (#39094510)
For what it's worth, I don't think it's ugly.

I think you're right that it's a personality thing, maybe connected to how strong the "rationalization drive" is? I don't know.

I guess I'd rather tickle the rationalizing side of my brain with a rationalizination of the tendency to stop rationalizing rather than just stop rationalizing :)

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Re:When America First Dropped Acid by mensetmanusman on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:40PM (#39095118)
At least we know rationalization is not possible without free will!
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