When the "Haitians are eating cats and dogs" story broke, one right-winger was being pressed for evidence of his claims. He responded on Twitter, "geez, this just happened a few days ago, give us some time to get the evidence together!"
I responded, "Usually people form beliefs on the basis of evidence, not the other way around."
Please forgive the “Akshually…” As Critical Rationalists (Popperians) often point out, it’s assumptions all the way down. No theory can be justified because it leads to an infinite regression of justifications; therefore, all we can do is test/criticize our theories. There is nothing ipso facto wrong with having biases/beliefs (they are literally psychologically unavoidable) so long as you are willing to test them. Shirley operated with an assumption about Somali daycare fraud and tested his theories by visiting them. So far, so good. The real problem, as you point out, is that he was sloppy and/or possibly unethical in order to “own the libs”. But Shirley & Co. are no different than most people, including most academics/journalists, in that they are firmly in the justificationist camp. But the good thing about many (or some) academics/intellectuals/journalists is that they often behave as de facto Critical Rationalists, i.e., they will bluster about their various theories having been “justified”, but they also know that their theories can be blown apart by new empirical evidence and/or criticisms and are (mostly) open to testing/criticism.
We're at the collapse of storytelling, news, even words are in collapse with the disappearance of reading comprehension, and this is the plan? To identify the illusory development of beliefs as a mechanistic media practice?
Forget it, this is trees for forest.
What if beliefs are the illusion, not the process of accelerating them?
Can we chat? We're allies and we know what you're looking at. So are we. We wrote about you and we'd love to compare notes. Let me know if you get this.
I feel like it’s worth mentioning, Shirley lied to every single person he talked to in that video including the police 3 times. He also tried opening a closed door after two women asked him to leave and closed the door in his face. Should have been arrested for trespassing.
When the "Haitians are eating cats and dogs" story broke, one right-winger was being pressed for evidence of his claims. He responded on Twitter, "geez, this just happened a few days ago, give us some time to get the evidence together!"
I responded, "Usually people form beliefs on the basis of evidence, not the other way around."
He blocked me.
This is exactly what you're describing.
Please forgive the “Akshually…” As Critical Rationalists (Popperians) often point out, it’s assumptions all the way down. No theory can be justified because it leads to an infinite regression of justifications; therefore, all we can do is test/criticize our theories. There is nothing ipso facto wrong with having biases/beliefs (they are literally psychologically unavoidable) so long as you are willing to test them. Shirley operated with an assumption about Somali daycare fraud and tested his theories by visiting them. So far, so good. The real problem, as you point out, is that he was sloppy and/or possibly unethical in order to “own the libs”. But Shirley & Co. are no different than most people, including most academics/journalists, in that they are firmly in the justificationist camp. But the good thing about many (or some) academics/intellectuals/journalists is that they often behave as de facto Critical Rationalists, i.e., they will bluster about their various theories having been “justified”, but they also know that their theories can be blown apart by new empirical evidence and/or criticisms and are (mostly) open to testing/criticism.
We're at the collapse of storytelling, news, even words are in collapse with the disappearance of reading comprehension, and this is the plan? To identify the illusory development of beliefs as a mechanistic media practice?
Forget it, this is trees for forest.
What if beliefs are the illusion, not the process of accelerating them?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393214000220
Can we chat? We're allies and we know what you're looking at. So are we. We wrote about you and we'd love to compare notes. Let me know if you get this.
I feel like it’s worth mentioning, Shirley lied to every single person he talked to in that video including the police 3 times. He also tried opening a closed door after two women asked him to leave and closed the door in his face. Should have been arrested for trespassing.