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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:54:00 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vqs1p9$2ka6q$2@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2025-03-12, Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>> In article <vqquh9$2a8en$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Anonymous  <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>I’m not objecting to any specific post or topic in this thread, but don’t
>>>even people who occasionally enjoy echo chambers eventually get bored of
>>>them? 
>>>;-)
>>>Of course, since the earliest years of c.o.v we’ve very frequently
>>>witnessed their formation here. Maybe more often than in the present case
>>>(though this topic is small, historically speaking), with at least a
>>>tendency to have a continuing sub-thread at of least somewhat c.o.v.
>>>subject-relevant content.
>>>
>>>;-)
>>
>> You know, it's funny.  I've spent a lot of time over the last 8
>> years thinking about echo chambers, because it seemed so utterly
>> improbable that the American public could vote Donald Trump into
>> the presidency, not once, but twice.  Surely his obvious lying,
>> his transparent grifting, his shameless and lifelong tendency to
>> take advantage of others was so clear that no one would take him
>> seriously, let alone vote for him.  And yet, here we are.
>>
>> So I have to ask myself, seriously, "do all those people see
>> something that I don't?"  And, "am I the one that's wrong?"
>> After all, how would I know if I was, in fact, living in an echo
>> chamber.
>
>One of the things I do to make sure I never fall into this trap is to
>expose myself to sources of information or viewpoints I strongly disagree
>with, to make sure they don't reveal something that my normal sources of
>information have "forgotten" to mention.
>
>It helps you to understand what others are thinking and to help you build
>a well-rounded model of reality instead of your reality been based on one
>specific set of views.

This is good advice.  Fortunately (??), at the moment over here,
we have very little choice but to do this.

>It would be nice if Mr Trump's supporters could do the same.

Agreed.

	- Dan C.