I haven't listened to the podcast, but the Guardian article is (as usual) very good
thought-terminating cliches commonly carry a defeatist flavour. It’s hard work, involving psychological friction, to figure out the best way to think about complex subjects such as climate policy or geopolitics. Any licence to give up the struggle is going to be appealing
yep
Unfortunately, mere awareness of such tricks is not always enough to help us resist their influence. For this, we can blame the “illusory truth effect” – a cognitive bias defined by the unconscious yet pervasive tendency to trust a statement simply because we have heard it multiple times. Memory scientist Lisa Fazio has found that we are so primed to confuse a statement’s familiarity with veracity that the bias persists even when listeners are warned to look out for it, even when they are explicitly told the source was untrustworthy.
ugh, this sucks
I just watched recently a documentary on Devo (their name deriving from their central, perennial focus on the de-evolution of humans), and it's just sad how far from evolved humans really are, and are likely to remain, until our extinction
