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#451 - Derek Beres - Conspiracy Theories In New Age Cults
Modern Wisdom
The Purity Spiral
I learned about the purity spiral, and i'm always hesitant about learning a new huristic and then trying to apply it to everything. But i do think that there's an element of this where everybody, many people on line, are bound together by mutual distaste of an out group more than they are mutual love of an inn group. And another part of this that jonathan hate talks about in the happiness hypothesis is that it allows us to feel the moral emotion of outrage and superiority, whilst having done nothing moral to earn it. So we get to see somebody else do something that is wrong, and we get to stand our morality stands on the shoulders of a person that's fucked up
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