Just Asking Questions

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I like distinguished between good and bad faith, by which think you mean assume that the other person is engaging with you in good faith. So there's actually an expression called jacking off, just asking questions. Andado nine 11 truthers do this to me all the time. Just asking questions, how d building seven have fallen? You knowu i see where this is going, or you nont climb it. The nier, i don't know much about that, but i just, like columbo, i just have this one little question her,. But they're not actually acting in good faith. They're trying to draw you down a particular pathway. It s here would be

Astonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. COVID-19 denial, anti-vaxxers compromising public health, conspiracy thinking hijacking minds and inciting mob violence, toxic partisanship cleaving our nations, the return of Flat Earth theory… What the heck is going on? Why is all this happening, and why now? More important, what can we do about it? Does our “right to our opinion” trump our responsibilities? Does the resulting ethos effectively compromise mental immune systems, allowing “mind parasites” to overrun them? Are conspiracy theories, evidence-defying ideologies, and garden-variety bad ideas all species of mind parasites, each of which employs clever strategies to circumvent mental immune systems? In this conversation, based on the book Mental Immunity, Andy Norman shows that minds and cultures have immune systems, and that they really can break down. Fortunately, he assures us that they can also be built up: strengthened against ideological corruption. Can his ideas revolutionize our capacity for critical thinking?