I use it in my process of politicization if you prefer.



I see an information > I get a point of view on said information > I know that my sources will usually confirm my point of view > I check my sources and usually that is the case > This is what the process of a confirmation bias is. This is how I can know that I have a reliable politicization.

But to be sure to have a good source, I need a good system first:

The point of a great politicization is to understand how to uses our biases FOR ourselves and not against ourselves and to understand that our environment will politicize us no matter if we agree or not. So I uses this to my advantage and create a space where my sources are always SLIGHLY more politicized than me on different subjects.

When I say "slightly more politicized, I mean that they depict a form of understanding for a concept that I'm not familiar with and usually something that make my own point of view usually more slightly reactionnary than theirs > which I consider to be more ethical (depending on the contexts obviously).

This system prevents any form of reactionnary confirmation biases to be sent toward me and pushes me naturally toward more understanding while keeping my mindset ethical through a reaction effect that I know will politicize me naturally.

To do that, I'm always staying aware of the slight shifts in the politicization of my sources in order to adjust mine. If for example I'm on twitter and my sources says something that I find slightly more reactionnary that their usual positions. I pause, analyze the content, and keep in my head the fact that I will potentially get rid of that sources later... But sometimes, what I find slightly more reactionnary is actually a form of radicalism in desguise. So I keep an inmind checklist, and when a person or entity gets around five non acceptable checks, I get rid of the sources and try to replace them by someone that challenges my position.

The interesting stuff happens when my sources share something that "feels" more ethical and enlightening, but that I find, really challenging. In such case, I know that there is a possible point of possible self-critic and I focus on that specific subject, usually by adding an external source shared by the previous source on the subject.

This extends my windows of understanding and let me simmer in a rethoric that I'm not familiar with. After a while (a few month usually) I have absorbed all the main arguments and materiality of their point of view and my internal political vision slightly shifts toward that new source.

It's like a relay race, my sources are the runners and I'm the baton. I use confirmation biases only to verify my position. After that, I let the system - that I created - guide me.

This is why I'm so adamant in my beliefs. It's only possible for me to go forward, never backward (unless I lose my memory ofc)



Diseases were weaponized, without colonization, things would have probably been very different. I think it's fair to say that the values of indigenous people would have aligned quite well with communism.

Then again, without colonization, there probably wouldn't have been any capitalism..
No need for that wall of text. Better read on what confirmation bias means.
 
Diseases were weaponized, without colonization, things would have probably been very different. I think it's fair to say that the values of indigenous people would have aligned quite well with communism.

Then again, without colonization, there probably wouldn't have been any capitalism..
I believe that the idea of the weaponization of diseases taking part in the north-american genocide side of the indigenous people of america is disputed among specialists.

Do you have ressources to explain how their values would have aligned with communism though ?


But anyway there is probably writers who published novels and such about the uchronia you mention
 
I believe that the idea of the weaponization of diseases taking part in the north-american genocide side of the indigenous people of america is disputed among specialists.
It’s not even disputed. We know in North America it was used against the natives in the 1800s. The thing is by then most natives were wiped off the continent. We’re talking about a 50 million drop in population
 
Just because a dog chews a lot of bones doesn't mean he knows the word for it.

The reality is, you are using the term incorrectly. That's just the reality of the situation.
The reality is that I had to learn how biases worked intensily in order to deradicalize from conspiracy theorism then deradicalize from the right, then to undersand leftism then radicalize toward leftism.

So no one, not even the most radical leftists get to tell me that I don't understand what a bias is. Especially from people who I know for a fact are full of it.

I explained how confirmation biases was used in my method. It's subtil, but it's there, read it.

What is this confirmation bias argument about
Nothing, I believe just people trying to make me pass as someone who do not understand what I explain. Per usual.


Do you have ressources to explain how their values would have aligned with communism though ?
Not particularily. It's just seems like a logical hypothesis.

In north and A lot of south america, the land was considered as a shared ressources. While territories existed I believe, private property was very different from what it was in "Europe".

On top of that, these civilizations were heavily directed toward observations, nature and a rather polytheistic approach. This, extended to 500+ years would have been to me the ideal fertile ground for the raise of a highly advanced scientists and ecological paradigms. Which would, in turn probably be the seed for a big time materialist thinking with a strong understanding of ecological and social systems all around.

This would be the perfect place to grow a new form of communist or perhaps rather anarchist way to see the world.

When I look at the current indigenous people trying to keep the anticolonial fight alive today, I see a lot of spiritualist communists. So I think that without the colonization of america, and thus with a weaker capitalism, the world would be probably lean more toward that communist approach today.

I believe that the idea of the weaponization of diseases taking part in the north-american genocide side of the indigenous people of america is disputed among specialists.
Indeed, but from what I know, sociologist are trying to show that the development of disease can't be isolated from the colonial context:
- Wars
- Forced displacements
- Famines
- Slavery
- Destruction of social structures etc.

In other words they do no say that there has been a massive weaponization of disease but rather that the colonial context demultiplied the impacts of the spreading. Showing that diseases and colonial context can't be separated as natural vs human made within that genocide of 70 millions of people.

It was a system of extermination working in tandem..

> Source - Le génocide des amériques, resistance et survivance des peuples autochtones. Marcel Grondin and Moema Viezzer (I think I arleady shared this source once, it is considered one of the best current work of documentation of that genocide)
 
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