Table is on 🎯 target. The bigger question is how to get through to the delusional masses that ignore horrific factual events to maintain and protect their individual "beliefs" which are one with their self-identity.
Most importantly, I think we have to realize that they are mostly unreachable. However, with info that is factual and accessible, we can reach maybe 40% of them. The others will just turn away at the slightest discomfort. As you said, their beliefs are part of their identity, so they have deep emotional anchors in place. This is why they can have existential melt-downs simply by being exposed to the facts. The facts threaten their core identity.
Dunning-Kruger = arrogance + incompetenceSome people demonstrate *unintentional* incompetence coupled with an inability to learn from their mistakes and from additional training/education; these people are commonly referred to has having Dunning-Kruger Syndrome (or demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect) per the classic 1999 publication by Kruger and Dunning, "Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments" in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology which showed that:some people are "too stupid to know how stupid they are"they actually become more incompetent with additional training/education because their ego defenses block them from integrating new information and trap them in cycles of defending their previous positions and actions https://healthythinking.substack.com/p/dunning-kruger-effectsyndrome
Table is on 🎯 target. The bigger question is how to get through to the delusional masses that ignore horrific factual events to maintain and protect their individual "beliefs" which are one with their self-identity.
Most importantly, I think we have to realize that they are mostly unreachable. However, with info that is factual and accessible, we can reach maybe 40% of them. The others will just turn away at the slightest discomfort. As you said, their beliefs are part of their identity, so they have deep emotional anchors in place. This is why they can have existential melt-downs simply by being exposed to the facts. The facts threaten their core identity.
Dunning-Kruger = arrogance + incompetenceSome people demonstrate *unintentional* incompetence coupled with an inability to learn from their mistakes and from additional training/education; these people are commonly referred to has having Dunning-Kruger Syndrome (or demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect) per the classic 1999 publication by Kruger and Dunning, "Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments" in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology which showed that:some people are "too stupid to know how stupid they are"they actually become more incompetent with additional training/education because their ego defenses block them from integrating new information and trap them in cycles of defending their previous positions and actions https://healthythinking.substack.com/p/dunning-kruger-effectsyndrome