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Looking at X analytics it shows that a recent theme I've been using gets far more impressions from men than women. About 90/10%
The recent theme is called The Orwell Test. The test asks people to imagine a situation where
The "Orwell Test" in Action
Try this: Take any policy that smells authoritarian and ask its defenders:
"If the other side did this exact thing, would you call it Orwellian?"
- 90% will say yes.
- 90% will then defend their side doing it.
That's not hypocrisy-it's tribal epistemology. The same brain that aces the 1984 quiz fails the 1984 stress test
The upshot of the test is a proof of personal development challenge. Simply put, am "I cognitively dissonant, yet am not aware of it? "
It's rather a self fulfilling challenge though because the answer is already known beforehand. *Everyone* is cognitively dissonant when it comes to tribal loyalty.
We're all obedient to the tribal narrative for good reason - being seen to be the most obedient people will be rewarded most highly by the tribe.
Its why the Vax was taken by nearly everyone without question. Or masks worn, lockdown obeyed, Palestine and Ukraine supported, Trump hated, climate deniers attacked with impunity, rent seeking blessed as a secret virtue and so on and so on.
Wait... you can see me failing the Orwell Test right here in the last sentence. Do you see?
The Orwell Test is about 'obedience' being the primary driver for individuals acting in a society run as a hierarchy.
With peoples principles (palestine, ukraine, covid etc etc) being a psychic escape, or get out of jail free card - 'moral licensing'. That is to say, "I can allow my government to kill people now because I support climate change".
Our principles which we make spectacular public displays of, are what we use to defend this collective wide dissonance. And our principles come a distant second place to signalling our obedience as instruments of authority.
We game society in the way because it works! I get promoted at work for it. I get more validation from having more friends.
As a leader I will be elected if I am among the best at signalling my obedience to the authority of the tribe. It matters little that I'm robbing the hell out of my electorate or supporting a foreign regime invading their nation in my activity.
There are no exceptions to this social behaviour, everyone is at it more than they are at anything else. I am too, yet I do recognise I am at it and work everyday to correct it, and fail every day.
Onto the analytics: X is showing a 90/10 distribution between men and women for my replies. I think I can explain this.
My activity on X especially on this topic is about obedience. And women are more likely to be obedient(seek the protection of a master figure) and use moral licensing(feelings and emotions) to escape that pathology and help them vote on what happens in the material world.
By saying women should not be leaders I don't mean they are any less than men at all. Often men position themselves poorly too. I do mean women are better than men at a lot of things and they are not undertaking those roles any more so no longer receive the highly valued rewards due to them. Or maybe men are blocking that opportunity by nursing babies for example. Maybe a bit of both.
Once the world only sees wealth and power as their ruler, and God is dead, you can understand why women are so tempted in this way - the non earth bound master they used to use to guide them we have killed. Gay and trans people might be a neurotic hybrid of this and we should look at this too, without judgement or law getting in the way of justice for them.
I realise these observations will upset many people. I'm not saying I support any of it. I am merely pointing at it in the hope it gets proper scrutiny, which clearly over the past 30 years has been lacking.