- wiki.keithl.com/MagicalOverthinking .
The Age of Magical Overthinking
Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell 2024 153.42 Garden Home Library
p022 Splitting
p024 Chinese Teens who "worshipped" people they really knew (parents, teachers) -> higher self-esteem and educational achievement
p029 proportionality bias assumes big events have big causes, leads to conspiracy theories
p032 blame your childhood trauma, then pay $26/mo
p033 20% assume COVID manufactured on purpose, 17% believe QAnon Satan worshiping elite claims
p035 Amanda Knox wrongful conviction in Italy
p038 girlboss
p039 DSM
p040 spiritual bypassing
p041 Disinformation Dozen vaccine lies
n041 p229 12 people behind vaccine hoaxes including RFK Jr.
p042 Give violence a chance $211K FTC fine for fake "made in USA" tags
p047 woo-woo schmuck therapist in Venice CA goat yoga
p048 conspirituality
p049 Baader-Meinhof phenomenon frequency bias
- p059 Mr. Backpack abusive former boyfriend
p062 Ryan Doody
p062 diachronically
- p062 alpha male standards encourage men to keep their feelings in a vault
p074 Zero-sum bias
- p074 i.e. public resistance to trade and immigration
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- p223 "please just lie like the husband in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie"
which movie? You Hurt My Feelings 2023?