{"id":26061,"date":"2017-09-24T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26061"},"modified":"2017-09-24T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:55:46","slug":"people-ignore-facts-that-contradict-their-false-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26061","title":{"rendered":"People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/09\/23\/or-39670.jpg\" alt=\"People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/09\/23\/people-ignore-facts-that-contradict-their-false-beliefs.html\">People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The more people there are who\u00a0ignore\u00a0facts\u00a0that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country. Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to\u00a0ignore\u00a0contrary\u00a0facts:<\/p>\n<p>What social scientists call \u201cconfirmation bias\u201d and have repeatedly found to be rampant,* is causing the public to be easily manipulated, and has thus destroyed democracy by replacing news-reporting, by propaganda \u2014 \u2018news&#8217; that\u2019s false \u2014 in a culture where lies which pump the agendas of the powerful (including lies pumped by the billionaire owners of top \u2018news\u2019media and of the media they own) are almost never punished (and are often not even denied to be true). Thus, lies by those powerful liars almost always succeed at enslaving the minds of the millions, to believe what the top economic-and-power class want those millions of people to believe \u2014 no matter how false it might happen actually to be.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a particularly stark example of this came to my attention. On 15 September 2017, an article that I wrote for the Strategic Culture Foundation, and which was titled by a true statement that I had only recently discovered to be true, was republished at a news-site that I consider one of the best around, \u201cSigns of the Times\u201d or \u201cSOTT\u201d for short, and a reader-comment there, simply rejected that title-statement and the entire article, because it contradicted what the person believes. This commenter entirely\u00a0ignored\u00a0the evidence that I had provided in the article, which proved the statement to be true.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how irrefutable the evidence is, most people reject anything which contradicts their deeply entrenched false beliefs, and this reader-comment crystallized for me, this phenomenon of \u201cconfirmation bias\u201d \u2014 the phenomenon of\u00a0ignoring\u00a0evidence that contradicts what one believes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs The more people there are who\u00a0ignore\u00a0facts\u00a0that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country. Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to\u00a0ignore\u00a0contrary\u00a0facts: What social scientists call \u201cconfirmation bias\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1200,67,3252,4394,655,8203,1213,1250],"class_list":["post-26061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belief-systems","tag-beliefs","tag-confirmation-bias","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-propaganda","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-totalitarianism","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26062,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26061\/revisions\/26062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}