...so I'm going to call you blue pilled and act like I've won the debate.
My friends, anybody on this cul de sac of niche shit-posting is not blue pilled. They might agree with you on 9/11 or the moon landing, but disagree with you about who killed JFK or the utility of the Federal Reserve.
Be open minded and debate the issue in your post, rather than bringing in outside BS purity spiral material.
Thanks!
There's a reason underlying this phenomenon, a reason that it happens so incredibly frequently, and it's one that we're not supposed to know about.
It has to do with a concept called "egosyntonicity". I heard Alan Watt mention many times while never clearly defining or discussing it, and it was years before I looked it up for myself. (That's how hard it is for things to get into people's consciousnesses.) Alan just kept saying that "They" wanted everyone to be egosyntonic.
I don't think he understood the mechanism clearly. Wikipedia does a horrible job of describing it and I imagine all the science backing it up is sparse and shitty as well. The concept is correct and it is key, which is why "They" make sure it isn't studied and discussed.
It involves the functioning of most human consciousnesses. What happens is that an egosyntonic person (which is most people) sees a claim that is contradictory to what they already believe. That claim is instantly and silently processed by the subconcious, which happens with everything.
This is key: the subconscious decides that it is certainly or probably true, and if it's true, that means the person was the dupe, the bad guy, on the wrong side of history, immoral, whatever. IOW, it threatens to wreck their worldview and their view of themselves in it.
That situation immediately engenders fear, insecurity, and intense anxiety. It is a crisis that cannot stand. The subconscious instruct the conscious to "fix it", and the easiest fix by far is that to make it so the claim, somehow, simply is not true. The conscious sets to work to make up whatever it can to "prove" the claim to be false, irrelevant, biased, whatever, doesn't matter.
This mechanism explains two thing: (1) Why people are so compelled to respond to claims they do not already believe are true, why they simply cannot let them stand, and (2) Why they say such stupid and irrational shit in an effort to do so.
In summary, there's almost never a point in arguing a point, because what is going on in the other person's head almost certainly has nothing to do with the truth of the claim in and of itself. In fact, deep down in their subconscious, they already know it's true.
Great comment.