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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:56:06 JST Eaton

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   • Chris Adams

   @acdha I think that “actually, everything you think is common sense is BACKWARDS!” thrill is an interesting element to focus on, since it’s become such a critical part of the reactionary “heterodox thinkers club” posturing, and entangled in conspiratorial thinking.

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     Chris Adams (acdha@code4lib.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:56:07 JST Chris Adams

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     • Brian Marick

     @marick I think Diamond has held up better – I haven’t seen accusations of the outright misrepresentation in service of right-wing tropes which characterizes Haidt’s big books - but I think you’re right to reconsider contrarianism. It’s such an easy path to a rush of self-satisfaction that I think it almost inevitably leads to errors over time as the writer relaxes their self-doubt – Nate Silver used to be a better writer when he had to worry about what an editor would say, too.

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     Brian Marick (marick@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:56:08 JST Brian Marick

     Haidt is one of those “public intellectuals” whose later work makes me wonder if his earlier work that I liked was just as bad, but happened to tickle my biases or my innate contrarianism.

     See also Jared Diamond. https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112309679600238882