Now, are we aware of our own ulterior motives? A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
Spelling out one's own hidden biases is a bit harder :-) A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
So, our bias may be correlated to the bias in the general media. If the main winds were to change, we may change in the opposite direction. Or maybe not, we can't know because it hasn't happened. Yet I remember your warning that we should not try to find confirmation of what we were saying in each and every item of the current crisis -confirmation bias.
I tend to see ET as having different standards for some countries (Russia and China come to mind) -being ready to defend things that would be slammed in many other ones. That's an example of appearing to overshoot in opposing the mainstream bias. Similarly, and I say that as an ardent supporter of wind power, I have the impression that some graphs are explained with enthusiasm trumping a purely neutral analysis -again, the barrage of bad faith from the mainstream may explain some of that.
As for myself, I know that the French right has been so awful for so long that I have to fight deep scepticism if something they say seems to make sense. I'm always looking for the catch (there very often is one. Is there always one? Maybe not). "The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"
