Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown

Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by api on Monday March 10, 2014 @11:36AM (#7373505)

HN seems to harbor an elite naiveté crowd who thinks there is no such thing as official misconduct in the world.

(Elite naivete is a term I coined from hanging around in the orbit of elite schools and noting that people from prep school / elite backgrounds are often shockingly naive about how boots-on-the-ground reality works beyond their enclaves.)

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by tptacek on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:16PM (#7373770)

We must be on different HNs.

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by jamesaguilar on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:25PM (#7373848)

Likewise. The HN I read is full of anti-epistemological conspiracy theorists these days.

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by anigbrowl on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:20PM (#7374264)

We're just suffering from 'just world' syndrome.

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by api on Monday March 10, 2014 @03:43PM (#7375235)

Thanks for the reference... this is precisely what I mean by elite naiveté... a bias toward thinking that the mechanisms of the world are more just and fair than they actually are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

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Re:Tokyo Radiation Less Than Paris’s Three Years After Meltdown by anigbrowl on Monday March 10, 2014 @04:46PM (#7375581)

I know, but I also think it has become a political nostrum that's used to shut down debate as often as open it up. It's easy to fall into a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome mindset as well; this used to be considered a mass media pehnomenon, but relatively small internet communities fulfil the same function. In short, not all good news is propaganda.

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