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RE: Power sells

in LeoFinance4 years ago

I think this is especially true in today's society where a lot of people feel powerless and lacking agency to manage themselves, so they claw on to group identities to pool resources and wield their power over others. A lot of the cancel culture is illustrative of this, where the group can punish an individual for the slightest indiscretion, destroying their lives with glee - where the "victims" become the oppressors.

I'm hearing you right now x_x

when we are influenced into using our power to support the illusion of having power, we end up slaves to the suppliers

I'm glad I read first and comment later (which is why I always take so long to comment as that means sometimes reading multiple times x_x), I was going to mention this but it would have taken me a paragraph.

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I'm glad I read first and comment later (which is why I always take so long to comment as that means sometimes reading multiple times x_x),

I wonder if for at least some things, you learn better because of this. There is thing called cognitive dissonance (or something) where for example, reading a hard to read font makes people slow down and learn better, so they end up with higher retention.

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I thought cognitive dissonance was something along the lines of holding conflicting beliefs or saying one thing but doing another? Or was that an example of cognitive dissonance?

I feel cognitively dissonant now XD

I never remember the term... I googled it now to find out for sure:
"disfluency interventions"

Here is an abstract of one of the studies:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-hard-fonts-retention.html#:~:text=Study%20suggests%20'hard%20to%20read'%20fonts%20may%20increase%20reading%20retention,-by%20Bob%20Yirka&text=(Medical%20Xpress)%20%2D%2D%20Researchers%20from,harder%20to%20read%20are%20used.

Seems kind of like trying to use writing to make adhd kids slow their brains down and develop their memory skills (need to keep the thought in the head long enough to come out the pen).

Probably works just about as well too (will be amazing for some and annoying as all hell for others XD).