“We Will Believe Opposites”

Again, it’s so absurd. There is this strange effect in our brains that we will believe opposites / paradoxes if there’s some sort of similarity in it.

Source: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

I had been trying to understand the pattern that I had already noticed in data: that the more opposite the truth is, the more likely certain minds will believe something. How the Russians achieve this! Donald and MAGA do it as well. Where the completely anti-intuitive thing like it’s the vaccines cause the harm, not the virus take hold of our minds.

Source: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

This is the Law of Similarity from Cultural Psychology / Sympathetic Magic: if two things share a surface resemblance (virus/vaccine), cause and effect can be reversed in the mind. The paradox is the mechanism, not a flaw. War Magic exploits these cognitive vulnerabilities.

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