Council of the Canceled with Eric Weinstein, Jay Bhattacharya and Mike Benz (X Content): Difference between revisions

Well they’re projecting. I mean, I really feel like, in general, when somebody says “fringe” or “charlatan” or “grifter” or “guru” or “ne'er-do-well” or whatever, what they're really doing is, is that they're, they're telling you about the weakness of their position and trying to make sure that they strike first. To be honest, can we all admit that there's a little part of our brain that sits around saying, gosh, you know, so many bots said this terrible thing about me. Maybe it's true. And it's weird because we know that this is a psychological defect, that our brains weren't trained for an era in which you could buy 10,000 accounts that, you know, all screamed the same thing. And yet, we're sitting here looking metacognitive at our own minds, doubting ourselves and the power to convene these things. We're sharing the same story, "Oh, they got you too. They got me on this. And here's how they use that language." But it's only by creating an aggregate set of information that we learned what the techniques.