Showing posts with label proximate causes vs. driving forces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proximate causes vs. driving forces. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Why Do People Believe Strange Things?

I often ask myself, why do people believe strange things? The more I think about it, the more I realize this: People don't believe things because they're true, they believe them because they're useful.

So then, this raises another question: Useful for what? That's what we need to try to understand and address.

"They're ignorant" becomes a more compassionate question: What need are they trying to meet? And then, maybe: How can that need be met in a better way?