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Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays
An Echo Chamber can be the product of a bunch of people who all hold certain ideas to be sacred. Other times, it can be the product of one or a few “intellectual bullies” who everyone else is scared to defy. Even in the smallest group—a married couple, say—if one person knows that it’s never worth the fight to challenge their spouse’s strongly held
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before our eyes tells us otherwise. At some level we all value group acceptance, sometimes even over reality itself. But if we care about truth, we must fight against this. Why? Because the cognitive biases that I have described in this chapter are the perfect precursor for post-truth. If we are already motivated to want to believe certain things,
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The Apocalypse Is Here, and It’s One Big Cult
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