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mojowork_n

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113. Found it.

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 08:28 PM

Jun 2012

Had to take a look and it came right up. Here's the study:

http://www.democracynow.org/resources/63/263/The_Irony_of_Satire.pdf

Another link:

http://socialpsychologyeye.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/confirmation-bias-satire-and-stephen-colbert/

....uses the term, "confirmation bias," implying someone is looking for opinions to reinforce their own
point of view.

But I disagree. At least a little bit. I'd use the analogy of Plato's cave. Some of these people
are struggling to identify the world around them. For whatever reason, the best they can manage is
a really flat, two-dimensional, black-and-white world. No depth, subtlety, complexity, ambiguity at all.

It's a frightening world they live in, and that -- and anger -- are the engines driving that whole
train wreck.

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Agreed! Fantastic Anarchist Jun 2012 #70

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Found it. mojowork_n Jun 2012 #113

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