Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Congress Was Confused by the Internet During Hearing With Google CEO | NowThis" video.

  1. I think this video gets right to the heart of the conservative worldview: Conservatives tend to strongly believe that an agent must be responsible for everything, and that chaos and chance are to be feared. The way they ask questions: "my daughter played," "I just searched," they all sound folksy because they can't see things as part of a larger system. They can only see it as a bunch of individuals making choices, and I think that addresses most of their other viewpoints. Religiosity (it couldn't have been chance— God or somebody must be behind it!); conspiracy theories (climate change can't be real, because how could so many companies do harm whose consequence would be that we all just die? It has to be scientists who are behind this!); and personal responsibility (who cares if you're an alcoholic? Tough it out! You can do this! Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!) They all fall into this worldview. Bad things can't happen chaotically, for no reason, how could they? There has to be somebody who's causing this to happen, that's why things are bad! They're afraid of a lack of control. Once you realize that humans aren't completely free-willed, or that groups of people act differently than individuals, or that humans can create things that they later can't stop, you have to admit that maybe you don't have it all figured out, and you might get disadvantaged for no reason. It hurts to feel vulnerable, but they need to accept it.
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  2.  @xGoldenArrow  Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is being criticized a lot by the media and Republican politicians. So they hate you is you're old, and they hate you if you're young. I'd prefer someone younger, their brain is still sharp, unlike these dinosaurs.
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