Chapter 9: Help Me Please..

It is nice to understand people in theory. It is less impressive when your mother irritates you, your partner disappoints...
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Chapter 8: So What? Am I Self-Aware Now?

So what? After all this, after the opinions, the biases, the identity stories, the need for validation, the media distortions,...
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Chapter 7: Empathy

After righteousness, empathy looks like the obvious cure. That is part of its appeal. Once people become exhausted by moral...
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Chapter 6: Righteousness

Once people feel certain about what they see, they start feeling certain about what is right. That shift matters more...
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Chapter 5: Media and Perception

Once people need validation, they become easier to steer. Not because they become stupid. Not because they lose free will....
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Chapter 4: Validation

Once identity forms, it starts looking outward. A self does not only want to exist. It wants witnesses. It wants...
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Chapter 3: Identity

People like to speak about identity as if it were something hidden and pristine, waiting somewhere underneath the noise to...
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Chapter 2: The Bias and Prejudice

In the last chapter, the problem was not that people had opinions. It was that they trusted them too easily....
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Chapter 1: Opinion

People are very attached to the idea that their opinions are earned. That is a flattering story. It is also,...
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