Losing Faith In Contrarianism
Why Our Belief Systems Create Misperceptions- Published in The European, Nov 2014
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professional perspective, I realized that I couldn’t restrict my search for evidence
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
When too many people try to adopt the contrarian position at once, it’s no longer contrarian. Mavericks become the new consensus-following herd. If everyone tries to outsmart each other by adopting novel or obscure contrarian positions, it leads to player-versus-player environments where the froth and chop of memetic war makes winning even harder.