>> but there are some beliefs that tell me people aren't critical thinkers and will just believe things they're told... And then stick to it no matter what. I definitely treat those people differently for my own protection.
What are some examples? I want to know so I may or may not learn to avoid your usual treatment of belief-normatives and instead be treated with your non-normative belief conditioned self-"protection" process, ultimately because I may or may not view your preference for "critical[/oppressive] thinking" as both or neither or simultaneously predatory and oppressive, not to mention self-deluding.
You are obviously excusing your propensity to oppress and judge others through your irrational attachment to your beliefs that amount to nothing but false pattern recognition--or "apophenia". Your demonstrable beliefs make you weak to the clustering illusion and reveal your illusion of control bias. Pareidolia leads you to tap into your capacity to focus and directs it into protecting yourself from "[non-]critical[/non-oppressive] thinkers", wasting your focus.
Yes, you can imagine, and yes you are right, but you are also more wrong than you may know. Your imagination is immaterial, your intuition however, is not. Regarding "small details to deduce incredible things"--don't take the quote so seriously... you are claim to know what the person quoited thinks ("but thinks the solar system will never...") ;) Every conscious being inherently groks interconnection. Your imagination is running your focus into a constipated mess, making you weak to FEAR where you feel the need to judge others based on their capacity to critically or oppressively think as a sort of protective mechanism.
It's YOU, not THEM, you think its THEM, because you don't recognize it's YOU that are losing focus IMAGINING it is THEM. You are attempting to protect yourself by giving preferential treatment to others, when really it's your own run away imagination and your attachment to it combined with the error of attributing the lack of awareness of the focus sink onto the actual non objects of your imagination (i.e. you are mistaking the finger for the moon).
Dude, actually it's more like, what's the term folks use... "Enabling", you argue with the trolls, or anyone, you are in effect enabling their conditioned dopamine addiction... It's not like we say when a junkie scores a hit that "they win." far from it, Dude.
Oh... I could have sworn the "solipsistic change taking place in discourse" was that no one truly knows anything, that we're all just making shit up and stacking the shit into empires--indulging the pastime of 'bullshit-science' because we're afraid to admit we "don't know" and that ultimately the only thing we are in control of regarding knowledge is that of completely letting go of control.
When you think about it, we don't even know what knowledge is--what is it to posses (can it even be possessed?) the 'essence of knowledge'? Kinda makes you wonder if knowledge is nothing but the 'spiralcy study' of inevitable and ineffable Death--If all was known, could we really claim anything was ever truly alive?
I call a spade, Love. Everything arises out of Love, even your so-called "evil". Love is the first movement. You could unfasten societies overall moral compass and you're not going to do diddly-sqat to the Unconditional Love that permeates all that is. But don't believe me, I'm just a Dark Wizard with nothing to lose, I have embraced the Heart of Darkness only to find the Light, I know-see everything as Love, transcending time and matter and mind itself, the subjects we speak of are absolutely arbitrarily absurd, as is Love itself--have you ever impregnated yourself and burst forth like a sea-monkey giving birth? Remember Love.
What Happened to Duty? Well when the enthusiasm and obsession ("the fashion") wore away from the horrors and tragedies around that time, the shiny polish of "duty" became nothing but human excrement.
> but it can make you believe many other things with out you even noticing.
Case and point. This is false. This is fiction. You believe what you want to believe, you choose to believe the lie that there is anything outside of you that can make you or another do this that or another. That there exist some such authority that can be responsible vs everybody standing up and taking their personal responsibility only to realize that their whole identity is based on more lies and that no one on this planet is in control, that control, safety, security, certainty are as illusory as saying farts stink. All narratives, all stories, all fiction, untruth, the truth cannot be spoken nor written. "Please! Write me out of the Story of the Cave of Plato!" Sorry there bud, You're the one that's gonna have to write yourself out of Plato's cave, out of Plato's Mind, then out your own, if you dare.
> There's nothing new here.
Nothing is not new. Nothing has been around for a very long time. Even before Time came around. You know the Time Being, The Implication Being, the Reason Being, the The State of Being, the Very Being, the Difference Being, the Latter Being, The World Being--They all sit around and laugh at you, they know they're knot RA-EL, yet 'ere thy arrrr(prepping for talk like a pirate day soon, excuse me), "making" them as real as social media can make you believe many other things without you even noticing. ;)
Sec.. Let me just slice up, dissect, and pin this frog's guts neatly and artistically outside it's dead body.
Now, you were saying something about weird and creepy? There's nothing creepy and weird about eugenics, fascism, nor meritocracy. Eugenics was widely accepted well before the "not-see" perversion as a way to better humanity.
You know what's really creepy? Stories and thier Storytellers. Facts/Truth, never creepy. Stories, always creepy.