"Why am I suddenly defending my decency?"

Bret Weinstein explores the rise of fanaticism and how it feels from the inside. Covid vaxxers vs anti-vaxxers; traditionalists vs libertarians; and climate science deniers vs enthusiasts.Bret explains, "the experience for somebody who tries to do the analytical work on any one of these topics that have been evaporatively cooled — the experience is, 'Wait a minute, why am I suddenly defending my decency? Why is my morality in question?'And this is the hallmark. You can watch it happen. There's some question. Is the evidence consistent with the official narrative, or is it more consistent with a conspiracy? That's an analytical question. But if you are on the wrong side of it, the suspicion about you is that you are morally defective. There's something wrong with you that you would see it that way.And the wrong thing is not about analytical disagreement. It's not about the weighting of evidence. It is about your character."Hear Bret's full model for looking at fanaticism on Episode 339 of The Evolutionary Lens, available wherever you subscribe to podcasts....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dndlDN8lA