From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 17
Bias by blindness of loyalty is paradoxical because blind loyalty is actually a betrayal. In method or in subject. Out of our biased sense of loyalty we betray in method, by refusing to honestly inspect what we’re loyal to. But anything worth being loyal to proves it by standing any scrutiny, inspection, test. Therefore being honest in method exposes to the liability of being called to an adjustment, a shift, or even an upheaval, should what we’re loyal to fail the test. So here our biased sense of loyalty moves from betraying in method to betraying in subject, by refusing to honestly ask ourselves:
What is it we’re being loyal to actually, in the final analysis? Any kind of a clique supposedly benefiting from the sure detriment of all, or the whole of us? A parasite of life, or life at large?
When in Orwell's "Animal Farm" pigs appoint themselves "more equal than others", they need ferocious dogs in uniform to protect them from the other animals they conned and clobbered. Se be it very clear that the duty of those who wear uniforms is to protect the people from the powerful, while protecting the powerful from the people is High Treason, and that in order to escape one’s conscience one will end up losing it, with all that this implies for us all.
Bias by crave for certainties is our equilibrium, so frail, so on the defensive that we’re more interested in reassurance than in truth. We dread losing ourselves should our foundations be shaken. We escaped and forgot our being basically our potential for understanding, and we granted the shell of slowness and authority the title of our "protector" from brightness and integrity. We have stiffened and shrunken our identity into the shell of a few unquestionable certainties and given away our core which is the capability to face and sift out truth.
Bias by meanness is another form of shrinkage, as it stems from either disdain of one’s fellows or inability to see a wider area than one’s immediate vicinity or a honest way to get through.
