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Why People Hate Facts
VIEW FROM HERE-People do not make decisions based on what is true but based on what makes them feel good.
As a corollary, people reject ideas which make them feel bad, and facts often make people feel bad. Memes, however, are designed to make people feel good. (Both facts and memes which arouse hatred of the others are politically useful.)
Since feeling good is the main reason people accept absurdities as the truth, when voting time rolls around, we are beset with more idiotic memes. A meme is a simplistic phrase which makes people feel good. The most successful meme in the Western world is “Jesus died for your sins.” Because the meme is suffused with aura of holiness, one may not analyze the meme. Following the meme does not risk the pain of social ostracism. Hence, few think about the implications of the meme. Reduced to its basic element, “Jesus died for your sins,” means “Don’t think. Have faith.” All one needs is
Bengal needs no Radcliffe Line of hatred
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April 14, 2021 00:55 IST
In the elections, much violence is being done to the mind of Bengal, to its thinking wires, its feeling nerves, its very soul
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In the elections, much violence is being done to the mind of Bengal, to its thinking wires, its feeling nerves, its very soul
Election time in West Bengal has, for decades now, meant violent time.
There is violence during the campaigning, violence during the polling, violence during and after the counting of votes. The level of election-related violence and its duration vary but it is there.