Your posting history speaks for itself.
Still waiting on that evidence. Ironic that you hold a believe not supported by evidence in a thread about how that is wrong to do.
Your posting history speaks for itself.
I believe that the mistake you are making lies in the belief in incorrect data, that people like Trump supporters of Flat Earthers believe as they do because they buy into false data, and thinking it is correct data claim fake news about anything that contradicts them. The problem I see with this is that while it has superficial appeal, precisely the reason you do not know how to address it is because your diagnose is too shallow. It isn't that they believe false information and avoid corrective information thinking they already know the truth. They do that all right but for a reason that explains why that happens. They believe what they believe because they have emotional needs that those beliefs satisfy they do not know they have and therefore they can't help themselves. They have an emotional need those lies satisfy, a need for self importance that believing as a group in opposition to reality gives them a sense of belonging. It is the outrage their contrariness produces that is the source of their gratification and keeps them addicted to their insanity. They didn't just happen to fall for imbecilic thinking, they were ripe for the contempt thinking like that would bring them. It makes them feel as if they are getting even by actively reveling in their inability to be reached by factual reasoning.Yes, but, they do not think they are and thus the title of the article does not fit. Sure, there are a large number of people that believe claims and have no evidence.
The argument this article is making is 100% valid in the context that you should form your beliefs from evidence. The issue is with the OP is that he does not understand things as well as he believes which is why he makes the argument about the political Right as he sees it.
The people that he is bringing up are not people that have beliefs that are unsupported. The data they use is not factual, not well supported if at all supported, but, its data.
The OP understands that people are basing their beliefs on what he calls lies, which is another way of saying their beliefs are based on invalid data. The mistake Perk makes is not realizing the implications. What we have are people that are forming and holding beliefs on information that is not credible.
Thus, the issue for those people is not that they need to seek information to back their claims, its that they need to seek valid and credible sources. That is a very large distinction that the OP appears not to be able to make and or understand.
I believe that the mistake you are making lies in the belief in incorrect data, that people like Trump supporters of Flat Earthers believe as they do because they buy into false data, and thinking it is correct data claim fake news about anything that contradicts them. The problem I see with this is that while it has superficial appeal, precisely the reason you do not know how to address it is because your diagnose is too shallow. It isn't that they believe false information and avoid corrective information thinking they already know the truth. They do that all right but for a reason that explains why that happens. They believe what they believe because they have emotional needs that those beliefs satisfy they do not know they have and therefore they can't help themselves. They have an emotional need those lies satisfy, a need for self importance that believing as a group in opposition to reality gives them a sense of belonging. It is the outrage their contrariness produces that is the source of their gratification and keeps them addicted to their insanity. They didn't just happen to fall for imbecilic thinking, they were ripe for the contempt thinking like that would bring them. It makes them feel as if they are getting even by actively reveling in their inability to be reached by factual reasoning.
So they don't need real data. They need to see what makes them tick and how it prevents them from having any any real feelings of self respect. They chose negative attention over the love of knowledge and they do so because they were damaged as children and made to hate themselves. Only then will real data look real.
You said they need to seek valid and credible sources after saying they don't see such sources as valid and credible so there is no sense in saying they should seek what they can't actually recognize even looking directory at it. That means then that instead of seeking valid information they should be informed instead of the nature of their blindness. They won't like that either but they will never escape their prison unless they are somehow exposed to this as their inner condition. Believing you are looking for truth and are capable of recognizing it when you see it and considering the idea that you actually don't want to see the truth because of what it will cost emotionally, are two different states of mind and have different potential for awakening.How is what you said in contradiction to what I said?
You said they need to seek valid and credible sources after saying they don't see such sources as valid and credible so there is no sense in saying they should seek what they can't actually recognize even looking directory at it. That means then that instead of seeking valid information they should be informed instead of the nature of their blindness. They won't like that either but they will never escape their prison unless they are somehow exposed to this as their inner condition. Believing you are looking for truth and are capable of recognizing it when you see it and considering the idea that you actually don't want to see the truth because of what it will cost emotionally, are two different states of mind and have different potential for awakening.