tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post8477027263519797706..comments2024-03-26T10:26:51.288-04:00Comments on Jim Leff's Slog: Realizing I Am ImpoliteJim Leffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-62984237012577513732019-11-05T14:03:55.622-05:002019-11-05T14:03:55.622-05:00Sparing people the need to think is a critical par...Sparing people the need to think is a critical part of society, that is why all the conspiracy theories and hoaxes run wild. Remember the hoax of the flesh eating bananas? People still believe that.<br /><br />"One, somewhat humbling, explanation is that we are all “cognitive misers” – to save time and energy, our brains use intuition rather than analysis."<br /><br />"The findings, published in the February issue of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, suggest people are more aware of the shortcuts they take than previously thought.<br /><br />"Although we might be cognitive misers, we are not happy fools who blindly answer erroneous questions without realizing it," the authors write in the paper."<br /><br />https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160323-why-are-people-so-incredibly-gullible<br />https://www.livescience.com/27228-we-are-lazy-thinkers.htmlAnonymous cowardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10735960620188022682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-38063138771041289932019-11-05T09:24:29.373-05:002019-11-05T09:24:29.373-05:00Dave, great to hear from you! Thanks for reading a...Dave, great to hear from you! Thanks for reading and posting!James Leffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645526020049321126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-805335220064961602019-11-04T23:47:33.707-05:002019-11-04T23:47:33.707-05:00Hi Jim. Nice post. I agree with you... to a point....Hi Jim. Nice post. I agree with you... to a point. Politeness can be grating, but it doesn't seem so vacuous if you imagine a counterfactual situation: a world where people don't say "thank you" or "have a nice day" or even "thanks, got your message." Meaning, the world we're increasingly experiencing, where people don't even let you know they've received your email, or think you would need a receipt ("why would you need that, since I have one?" etc). I would argue that manners are the baseline that *allowed* you to know what that British lad was trying to say without it coming to blows. Sort of like establishing the key, which you can then play in or against. The alternative is not necessarily a more creative conversation so much as no conversation at all. <br /><br />You'll notice that I dispensed with the small talk after not having talked for, I don't know, two decades? But it's nice to come across your site and see that you're still banging away. <br /><br />Dave Lindsay<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12157209003905283979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-27593431146505031462019-11-03T20:44:46.737-05:002019-11-03T20:44:46.737-05:00Great post Jim. This might explain why I often thi...Great post Jim. This might explain why I often think of myself as shuffling through a script trying to find my lines. Doh.Display Namehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00108173250051938765noreply@blogger.com