Rene Girard - mimetics, scapegoating, and culture wars today

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

@Mervin_Bitikofer

…I’m very highly motivated to be happy with it.

 
We’ve come across motivated reasoning before, reasoning that is not fully rational, or at least it is unconsciously biased:

@Dale

This certainly has broad application outside climate science!:

…the smarter we are, the better we are at motivated reasoning, because we’re better at finding and marshaling and presenting the arguments that show that we’re right.