I think preferences falsification, or perhaps just belief falsification, is a bit applicable here, although I agree that many people simply believe whatever others say because it is what is normal and high status to believe. If the question is why people who should know better don't, then falsification seems to be appropriate. I don't th…
I think preferences falsification, or perhaps just belief falsification, is a bit applicable here, although I agree that many people simply believe whatever others say because it is what is normal and high status to believe. If the question is why people who should know better don't, then falsification seems to be appropriate. I don't think anyone with exposure to actual high functioning leaders or executives would look at Biden and say "Yea, he is totally on top of things." Now, if a person just never sees the videos of Biden wandering off, shaking hands with ghosts, asking if people who are dead are currently in the audience, it makes sense they are just not bothering to find out and saying what others say, but when people who pay attention see these videos and say "No, he seems fine to me," there is something more going on as their brain tries to rationalize (consciously or unconsciously) their current preferences and new information, and how to avoid the cognitive dissonance.
I think you hit the nail exactly on the head on the common knowledge point. So long as they could hide the more egregious Bidenisms they were fine, but once it was obvious the puppet wasn't running the show and was in no way able to do so even if he tried he had to go. It wasn't that no one in positions that matter didn't know he was well over the horizon of senility, it was that suddenly everyone else could blatantly see it, and it would all be downhill from there.
I think preferences falsification, or perhaps just belief falsification, is a bit applicable here, although I agree that many people simply believe whatever others say because it is what is normal and high status to believe. If the question is why people who should know better don't, then falsification seems to be appropriate. I don't think anyone with exposure to actual high functioning leaders or executives would look at Biden and say "Yea, he is totally on top of things." Now, if a person just never sees the videos of Biden wandering off, shaking hands with ghosts, asking if people who are dead are currently in the audience, it makes sense they are just not bothering to find out and saying what others say, but when people who pay attention see these videos and say "No, he seems fine to me," there is something more going on as their brain tries to rationalize (consciously or unconsciously) their current preferences and new information, and how to avoid the cognitive dissonance.
I think you hit the nail exactly on the head on the common knowledge point. So long as they could hide the more egregious Bidenisms they were fine, but once it was obvious the puppet wasn't running the show and was in no way able to do so even if he tried he had to go. It wasn't that no one in positions that matter didn't know he was well over the horizon of senility, it was that suddenly everyone else could blatantly see it, and it would all be downhill from there.