Kruglanski’s view, a craving for certainty drives much more of our decision-making than any of us want to believe or admit, and times of crisis and polarization only serve to ratchet up our craving for that certainty.īorn in Poland in 1939 - a bad year everywhere, of course, but murderously abysmal in Poland - and raised in a Jewish ghetto, Dr. He has crafted a theory of what he calls “lay epistemics,” i.e., the study of how individual thoughts create subjective knowledge. Because here’s the thing: whether we consider ourselves conservative or liberal, radical right or radical left or middle of the road, very few of us ever change our minds once we’ve settled on what we believe is the truth about an issue, scandal or public figure.Īrie Kruglanski, a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, has spent much of his decades-long career examining the ways in which people form beliefs and judgments. If Donald Trump’s routine debasement of the Oval Office has not chipped away at his popularity among his hardcore fans, no amount of prodding, cajoling or accurate, triple-sourced reporting will change their minds. Let’s focus, instead, on a more pressing reality: namely, the unlikelihood of the president’s backers ever “converting” to the anti-Trump camp. So what? Fake news! Build a wall! Trucks! Trucks!īut, okay, just … forget all that. That shit is for ivory-tower eggheads and losers who pretend to like “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” So we can’t spell. See? We’re not all that interested in books or history or foreigners. It’s almost enough to make a fake-news junkie believe that Trump and his pals are intentionally making themselves look lazy and dim-witted, as a kind of smirking pledge to their proudly incurious base: Or with my personal favorite (so far): Trump and the RNC paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln by tweeting out a dreadful, saccharine, fridge-magnet quote and wrongly (of course) attributing it to the 16th president. With an obvious typo on Trump’s official inauguration poster? Du Bois’s name in a Department of Education tweet? Trump’s first two months in office, where should we begin? With the misspelling of N.A.A.C.P. As for the litany of cringe-worthy mistakes and miscues that have characterized Mr. There are so many, ranging from the asinine to the near-sublime, that we probably won’t miss any genuine whoppers if we ignore the president’s unrelenting dishonesty for a few minutes. Let’s forget, for a little while, about Donald Trump’s lies. "Individuals who ordered the item based on the incorrect marketing materials may cancel their orders by calling customer service at (888) 682-3557.None of Us Will Change Our Minds About Trump or any Other Fucking Thing Arie Kruglanski and the rigidity of belief. "The Library regrets that its staff did not catch the error in the marketing materials for the poster, which were provided by the third-party vendor that created the product," the Library of Congress said in a statement. The Library of Congress released a statement Monday offering to refund those who purchased the poster.
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The item was later removed from the Library of Congress online store, but can still be viewed through the Internet Archive site. On social media, people were quick to point out the typo.
The only problem? The word “too” is spelled “to.” Nothing we want for the future is beyond our reach,” the quote says on the poster. “No dream is too big, no challenge is to great. The official inauguration portrait, which was for sale on the Library of Congress’ website, contained a quote from the president, which the library said: “captures the essence of Donald Trump’s campaign.” The Library of Congress removed an official inauguration portrait of President Trump that contained a spelling error Sunday shortly after people on social media tweeted about the mistake.
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