Democrats now claim it’s chicken on this grill and not a cat. Who in their right mind would videotape someone grilling chicken and claim it was a cat? People don’t consider normal behaviors like grilling chicken worth recording.
People lose their minds when they have motivated reasoning to believe a certain way. Everyone who claimed Trump was crazy will simply double down because they don’t want to be seen as “crazy.”
If you label anyone who thinks they’re eating cats in Ohio as “crazy,” then you will never want to concede that you were wrong. You don’t want to be a part of the “crazy” group and your peers, friends (allies), and perhaps coworkers will think you’re “crazy” if you start to question this story.
Echo Chambers Make It Difficult to Break Free
If you missed it, I also wrote about people who fawn in peer groups because they’re afraid to stick out and be kicked out of the community. If you heard your coworkers or friends laughing at the idiotic people who think cats are being eaten, how easy would it be for you to consider that maybe Trump was right? Would you admit it if you started to believe a cat was being grilled in Ohio?
You have to be very strong to wonder if you’re wrong.
When you live in an echo chamber, it is difficult to hear actual news without the biases and inflammatory language. It’s difficult to consider losing your social status with your peers. But the longer you stay in an echo chamber the more ridiculous the beliefs become because they go unchecked. They’re not questioned, so they get flimsier and flimsier.
Everyone on the outside of the echo chamber can look at it and think those beliefs are ridiculous. But from inside the echo chamber, it seems to be accurate because all you hear are echoing voices of agreement with you providing you with a sense of assuredness.
It’s always good to question whether you’re wrong. It’s nice to look at what the opposition to your beliefs says. You can question your beliefs and decide that you think they’re solid. But at least you’re questioning them and making sure they’re solid beliefs, not flimsy ones.
The life you live is based on your beliefs. You should want to make sure to test those beliefs if you’re going to use them as a foundation for your whole life.
If you want a strong bridge, you test the materials, and you test the workers, to make sure you get a steady bridge that can carry the weight of people driving on it every day. If you hire someone else to build a bridge and they put it together using tissue paper, would you want to drive on it? Make sure your beliefs are tested and found solid. Make sure you’re the one doing the testing. Don’t let someone else provide the materials and just trust them. You want to test them also to see if they’re worthy of your trust.
I understand that the people in an echo chamber would call me a hypocrite. They’d say I’m in an echo chamber if I believe something so ridiculous. There is a lot of projection that happens with people in echo chambers. That’s something to keep an eye on. It’s part of what keeps people locked into their own way of thinking.
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Make Sure Your Beliefs Are Solid, Not Flimsy