"what you said, and what they think you were thinking is in fact what they are thinking."
Yep, this is astonishingly often the case. Especially online. Some people really don't seem to understand that their emotions and gut feelings can be mistaken. This cognitive flaw drives conspiracy thinking, 90% of trans discourse, 99% of discourse a…
"what you said, and what they think you were thinking is in fact what they are thinking."
Yep, this is astonishingly often the case. Especially online. Some people really don't seem to understand that their emotions and gut feelings can be mistaken. This cognitive flaw drives conspiracy thinking, 90% of trans discourse, 99% of discourse about micro aggressions, and a worrying amount of modern-day political discourse.
So much of the hyperbole and black and white thinking that plagues our discourse is just emotional projection. One of the first lessons I had to learn when I started writing was how to recognise this instead of absorbing it
"what you said, and what they think you were thinking is in fact what they are thinking."
Yep, this is astonishingly often the case. Especially online. Some people really don't seem to understand that their emotions and gut feelings can be mistaken. This cognitive flaw drives conspiracy thinking, 90% of trans discourse, 99% of discourse about micro aggressions, and a worrying amount of modern-day political discourse.
So much of the hyperbole and black and white thinking that plagues our discourse is just emotional projection. One of the first lessons I had to learn when I started writing was how to recognise this instead of absorbing it