brockm on Nostr: You’re only truly an independent thinker if you’re willing to piss off your tribe ...
You’re only truly an independent thinker if you’re willing to piss off your tribe when you disagree.
Simply being part of a tribe that happens to be in the minority relative to “mainstream opinion” (however you define that term) and declaring yourself independent merely by being part of a minority community, while feeling like you have to stay in perfect ideological accord with that community, is just as much groupthink as basing your political opinions on what primetime hosts on CNN or Fox News tell you to think.
Simply being part of a tribe that happens to be in the minority relative to “mainstream opinion” (however you define that term) and declaring yourself independent merely by being part of a minority community, while feeling like you have to stay in perfect ideological accord with that community, is just as much groupthink as basing your political opinions on what primetime hosts on CNN or Fox News tell you to think.