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People care more about opinions and judgments, either their own or other people's, than objective, impersonal reality.

Possibly one of the few things that can induce people to care about reality is other people claiming to care about reality.

That suggests that a good way to get people to be rational is to immerse them in social environments in which irrationality is scorned and rationality praised.

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Depressing. If this is true, then it means that media manipulation/mass cultural programming/manufacturing desire are really the powerful tools that they unfortunately seem to be.

"Don't do this because it'll keep you healthy, do it because you can be cooler than you neighbor!!!"

Wow.

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