Confirmation Bias. Thursday Words

The drag of being, of having to exist - which for us implies, much, identifying with our own group, a created safe space in which fundamentally nearly all of us or of our affecting aspects are motivated to resemble each other until... Until. 

when people interact brains synchronize

Until even our inhibitions are the same. Data, the real world and-or any uncertain modelling of the same... lose importance, utterly, at least within the supporting stories we've created to bolster those our safe in-group spaces. Other neural pathways and netwoks and beyond gain momentum and dominate - and pull us, sometimes, into a profound hypocrisy which we negate, preferring stories over reality. 

What Does It Mean to be Biased: Motivated Reasoning and Rationality

Fabulation. To your narrative self. Kind of like:

For mine own good,

All causes shall give way: I am in blood

Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o’er...
(Macbeth)

What did Shakespeare understand about the human mind?

...which is a lie, being honest about it. A confounding of affect into stories. Much like 'arms of mass destruction', 'communist' or 'Putin will invade Europe' or basically the similar reasons given for nearly all wars. Both those defined as such as well as others, today as well, that are carried through in silence.

The world, the real one, is abandoned to a silence without memory. A silence that sometimes howls, that always dances - and by that dancing finds other ways to make itself heard. Like music: 

in Italian