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https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/on-default-settings-and-the-real
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This has a lot of merit IMHO Boomer…Thanks
Hypothesis
The US is quickly splintering into two groups, and it’s not the two groups you might think. It’s not Left vs Right, atheist vs religious, Democrat vs. Republicans, vaccinated vs unvaccinated, or even COVID-cautious vs COVID-so-damn-over-it.
The divide between the two groups is this: people whose default setting is to trust institutional narratives, and people whose default setting is to be skeptical of them; people who believe them unless/until proven otherwise and people who disbelieve them to equal measure.
For the purposes of this essay, I will call them Team Mainstream and Team Skeptic
Well defined about the default settings. What gets me is not that so many people default to believing govt. and other institutions early on in their lives, I did as well. BUT that so many continue to have that same default setting throughout their lives. They don’t learn from what goes on around them. My first questioning was at 12 with the Kennedy assasination. I have been a “skeptic for at least the last 40 years and how can you not be if you lived through the last 70?