Losing Faith In Contrarianism
when people are confident that they have the answers they become blithely incurious about alternatives.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Distrust—not facts or logic—made even contradictory theories seem more plausible than the official account.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
a greater detriment with our escalating progression toward the opposite extremity—the increasingly common ideology that assures people they’re right about what they believe.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
As people progress down the funnel of misbelief, however, they reach a point where healthy skepticism evolves into a reflexive mistrust of anything “mainstream” and genuine open-mindedness slides into dysfunctional doubt.