From the “People Who Profess to Have All the Answers Are Very Annoying to Those Of Us Who Actually Do” files...
I find “some mindsets” (point your own fingers) very disturbing. Some people, who have decided on a topic and established in their own minds what the truth is before the results are in, absolutely refuse the re-evaluate their position even in the face of the Real Truth once it becomes known! Why is that? Why is is that facts, no matter how absolutely convincing and carved in granite for all to see, why is it that those facts STILL have some people denying the reality? As a shithouse psychologist I’d really like to know. There must be someone on this site who’s capable of explaining this to me. I understand Projection — that psychological dysfunction that insists law abiding gun owners will use those guns to commit crimes, for example, and then the accuser will go out and shoot someone with a gun because THEY can’t control THEIR emotions! My shithouse analysis is that “People judge other people by themselves” — If I think you’re a lyin’ cheatin’ sonofabitch who’s out to screw me, it’s probably because I’M a lyin’ cheatin’ sonofabitch trying to screw everybody and I figure that’s pretty much the way people are.
Somebody help me out here...my Inner Freud wants to know.
I see it too. The loudest accusations are by the people committing the very offenses they are complaining about - and they don't see it!
It's classic projection. From "punch a nazi" to "russian collusion"
I hope it's a transitional thing because it sure isn't an improvement.
Truth, and fact are both perception based in our culture devoid of scientific reasoning.
Our facts are interwoven into our positions. Accepting or admitting truth only concedes your position rather than allowing you to pivot.
A lot of people are just functioning last min master thesis papers. We reject the duality of any position.
As to why I would speculate on a basic level we all have a need some level of conflict. The days of grand causes are gone and we have a large crisis of purpose/identity . The internet has given us all platforms to engage in miniaturized conflicts with one another creating ideological trenches of thought.
Observations from a layman - it is because they stand to lose much more by admitting their error than they stand to lose by perpetuating their delusion. Think about it. They have built their entire lives around the dogma and doctrine of their chosen idol - we're talking about leftists here but the psychology of it applies across the spectrum of belief systems. They have established a permanent identity under the umbrella of that dogmatic belief system. In there they are safe because they only consort with the faithful. All of their ideas, activities, their personal interactions and their family dynamics emanate from that critical core of their religion - which again, we are talking about socialists, centrists, collectivists. To admit they were mistaken about their god - is to admit that their entire existence was founded upon sand. By perpetuating the myth of their god they only reaffirm their sense of moral superiority and virtue. What "those others" might think about them is of no import to them.