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SA today mentions that US news consumers prefer content that agrees with them, while consumers in Japan and Hong Kong prefer a diversity of news. His theory is that those cultures are more homogenous and in agreement, so it's the novel stuff, even if it disagrees, which is entertaining.

That's why I have a hard time listening to content that agrees with me, because it's boring. It's why I listen to SA, because I disagree or am unsure of my opinion with him often.



The interesting part today was the fact that intersectionality (identity politics) is a system that necessarily fails, because it must continuously create new arbitrary ways to divide people and set them against each other.

Then there was the fact that inward looking personality types are less happy than outward looking personality types. It's inverse to the related concept of folks with an internal locus of control being happier and more successful than those with an external locus of control. Then I was listening to Gad Saad last night, who said we tend to attribute success to ourselves, and failures to external factors as an ego preservation method... I'm getting off the topic of what SA pointed out though, that one political campaign was inwardly focused, and the other was outwardly focused, and one clearly played out better than the other.

The final point that stood out to me was the benefit of talking a bigger game than you plan to implement with regard to illegal migration.