Cognitive Bias of Moral Panics; the Human Proclivity for Behavioural Repetitivity.
Photos by Markus Spiske and FransA from Pexels It's Christmas eve 2020, a year many will say has been one of the toughest of their lives. I'm doom scrolling on twitter as usual, just like everyone else, and I come across a tweet that reminds me that even at Christmas some people just cannot let go of negativity and chose to share joy instead, not even just for a short time at Christmas in one of the hardest years of our collective lives. There has been a number of things we can talk about in regard to this, whether it's finding fault with a rainbow tree bauble believing it to be the secret gay agenda being broadcast through the rainbows. (put your tin foil hats on folks, it's cold and scary outside where the rainbows are, they'll get your mind and turn it into alphabettie spaghetti 'wokeratie' soup! Stay sharp straights!) ...or whether it's telling the LGBTQIA+ community they should 'accept themselves' and not t...