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The salience equation is so relevant for today...the switching of "hats" was a device of obfuscating any relevance or responsibility for actions or directives or policies between points of view that one might hold between job, community and personal attitudes and opinions and actions. What worries me is that what has been challenging in my lifetime, will be infinitely more challenging (and destructive) on so many new fronts for coming generations.

@sleethmitchell

6 months ago

Most modern atrocities occur after tasks are compartmentalized. Which is the purposeful extraction of a part from the whole...this is how mankind will meet its end. with the willing cooperation of all its victims.

@calmstro

6 months ago

Brilliant presentation of the brilliant and wise Hannah Arendt! That our managerial elites can throw around “the banality of evil” as a slogan or status signal while thinking and behaving just like Eichmann shows just how important salience is to cognition.

@lotijuay

6 months ago

On the role of language in Pavlovian withdrawal I think a useful book is Cultish by Amanda Montell. Its focus is on cults and the role that language plays inside them. I think is a very interesting book in the same subjects areas to this channel (her latest book is about magical thinking and biases).