"That other people are falling for propaganda but we are too clever and know what's really happening."
"It's physically painful to realize you have been duped in major ways. It's so much easier to think everyone else is falling for it except you. It's a lot wiser to assume you are probably severely misinformed too, or at least wrong about some things in pretty big ways."
Many people assume that others are falling for propaganda while they themselves remain clever and informed. Recognizing that one has been seriously duped causes physical and emotional pain, which motivates denial and exceptionalism. That denial leads individuals to overestimate their own epistemic reliability and to dismiss the possibility that they share widespread misinformation. A more rational stance is to assume personal error on significant matters, embrace intellectual humility, and actively seek corrective evidence. Accepting probable fallibility increases openness to revision and reduces the comfort of assuming exclusive clarity amid widespread deception.
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