https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-important-album-of-1968-wasn-t-the-white-album-it-was-beggars-banquet?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

I hated Slate contrarianism in 2018 and I still hate it now.

#Slate #RollingStones #BeggarsBanquet #Beatles #TheWhiteAlbum #Music #PopularMusic #PopularCulture #Contrarianism

“Understand that there is a big difference between second order thinking and just being a contrarian, while the former is about analyzing/predicting subsequent implications of our decisions beyond the obvious ones and the latter is about just taking the other side of the bet.”

#SecondOrderThinking #contrarianism

https://open.substack.com/pub/models/p/second-order-thinking

"Over the last decade or so, I’ve been a strong advocate for #criticalthinking, a discipline that can transform lives and give us a new conception of what it means to understand reality. It’s no stretch to say that “everything changes when you adopt a worldview that embraces critical thinking.”

Pseudo-skepticism - What is Not Critical Thinking - Critikid
https://critikid.com/pseudoskepticism

#cynicism
#Contrarianism
#Denialism
#FLICC
#pseudoskepticism
#misinformation

He uses rhetoric with an apparent pretext of supporting LGB people to get at the T people, and we shouldn’t forget that part of his goal is to get at the LGB people too.
https://buff.ly/48XI4Ne

#LGBTQ #BrendanONeill #Transphobia #Homophobia #Contrarianism #LGBAlliance

Column from Paul Krugman that begins asking why some rich Silicon Valley elites are supporting the kooky Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and ends in a different place. Are they just cynically using him to undermine the Democratic Party, or do they sincerely believe the crazy things they're saying?

Krugman argues that it's at least partly the latter, that rich elites are disproportionately likely to be crazy, and for an interesting reason: they're unusually likely to fall victim to reflexive contrarianism, because it was part of their success.

“One sad but true fact of life is that most of the time conventional wisdom and expert opinion are right; yet there can be big personal and social payoffs to finding the places where they’re wrong. The trick to achieving these payoffs is to balance on the knife edge between excessive skepticism of unorthodoxy and excessive credulity.

It’s all too easy to fall off that knife’s edge in either direction.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html

#krugman #politics #SiliconValley #contrarianism

Oooh my #contrarianism loves this headline!

Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-decline-will-change-the-world-for-the-better/