Our mental model of the world is like a house of cards. Everything we learn is stacked on top of something below it, and something that challenges the foundations of other cards could knock down the entire house. Having their mental model destroyed sends people into despair and confusion, for a time unable to tell what's true and what's false.
That's why our mind often refuses to accept anything that poses a danger to what's already known to be true. New knowledge HAS to fit the existing model, or it's thrown out by any psychological means available. (denial, rage, ignoring, coping, ridicule)
This happened to me 11 years ago. I could no longer reconcile what I saw to be true with what I was told to be true. I tried parallel tracks of studying philosophy and then also tracking reality and current events with new eyes.
Putting some building blocks in place for critical thought really helped, although taking the red pill is not all it's cracked up to be. I can be cynical and nihilist at times. My refusal to waiver to normie sensibilities has cost me countless relationships, but I just keep moving. You can't disregard the truth because some don't want to see it.
Our mental model of the world is like a house of cards. Everything we learn is stacked on top of something below it, and something that challenges the foundations of other cards could knock down the entire house. Having their mental model destroyed sends people into despair and confusion, for a time unable to tell what's true and what's false.
That's why our mind often refuses to accept anything that poses a danger to what's already known to be true. New knowledge HAS to fit the existing model, or it's thrown out by any psychological means available. (denial, rage, ignoring, coping, ridicule)
This happened to me 11 years ago. I could no longer reconcile what I saw to be true with what I was told to be true. I tried parallel tracks of studying philosophy and then also tracking reality and current events with new eyes.
Putting some building blocks in place for critical thought really helped, although taking the red pill is not all it's cracked up to be. I can be cynical and nihilist at times. My refusal to waiver to normie sensibilities has cost me countless relationships, but I just keep moving. You can't disregard the truth because some don't want to see it.
I've been lucky, red-pilled for a lot of years now. So much so that the blue-pill world is quite painful to process, it's that fucking weird to me.
I don't have a lot of friends, but at least I have a based wife :)
It is a fight or flight response for some.
And the left have been conditioned to freeze and fawn