Tornado Alley (PROG)

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rooster, hookrider, That's rooster's deal. And judging by the amount of factual information

"rooster: Either you don't know what the fuck you are talking about or you are just fucking lying!!!!"

we have given him it would have to be the latter. Then again...

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Why We Lie to Ourselves

Technology only makes willful ignorance and self-deception easier.

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But we actually do understand some things — namely, that what drives self-deception and willful ignorance is the common denominator of selfishness that drives much of human behavior. Studies have demonstrated that leaders who make bad decisions with harmful outcomes — but are willfully ignorant about those decisions — are usually punished less .. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292114001032 .. than straight-up dictators. Other researchers have pegged deliberate ignorance .. http://pps.sagepub.com/content/11/3/359.full.pdf+html .. as an emotion regulation and regret avoidance device, a way to avoid liability while also driving performance. We can think of it like Melodonium .. https://www.inverse.com/article/12514-what-is-meldonium-and-why-did-it-cause-maria-sharapova-to-fail-a-drug-test , only instead of swallowing a pill you tell yourself that your housemates really would want you to eat the rest of cake you originally said you would save. Yeah, sure.

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