Quite an interesting video.
A collection of known facts, but put together very well. Worth 8 minutes of one's life IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebFWOlx848
Very interesting indeed. An aggravating factor of cognitive ease preventing critical thinking is the effect of the group, especially if it is a mono-cultural community.
There is little doubt that some of the more horrific pages of human history have resulted from people accepting incredible stuff just because their surrounding got them used to those (Germany in the late 1930s comes to mind and, as a reaction, critical/free thinking is probably more vivid in Germany today than in any other country on the planet). The phenomenon amplifies and a new local normality emergences that can drift very far away from generally accepted reason. People give up willingly on their free thinking ability not to be in conflict with the new norm that they have gotten accustomed to. Sects are obvious examples where this occurs in very visible ways, but I believe that it can happen also to much larger chunks to society or countries at large.
Software vendors, such as Adobe, that are trying to change the model from perpetual ownership to rental/subscription hope that cognitive ease will have us accept to keep paying money for ever because of the constant long term marketing effort they have been deploying. Little by little, we are getting used to the idea that paying forever makes sense for something you used to think you should own.
Cheers,
Bernard
