Biases are blaming statements. Saying someone is "not nice" is a blaming statement against a person directly...to avoid the disruption caused by the words which elicited the statement to begin with. Blaming someone else's character to diminish the importance of the statement they made is a well known and oft wielded bias.
Biases work because they allow a steady state of cognitive dissonance to occur. It's only when dissonance is disturbed that it begins to chew up resources - both internally and externally. How much effort should be going into picking a good president here in the US and what is limiting our ability to change things for the better? That's a HARD question to answer and requires a lot of work from a lot of different people to get even reasonably close to breaking the dissonance in society for the better.
Seems a far more efficient solution to let things randomly break at a point for a nice, yet messy, reset on societal cognition.
Biases work because they allow a steady state of cognitive dissonance to occur. It's only when dissonance is disturbed that it begins to chew up resources - both internally and externally. How much effort should be going into picking a good president here in the US and what is limiting our ability to change things for the better? That's a HARD question to answer and requires a lot of work from a lot of different people to get even reasonably close to breaking the dissonance in society for the better.
Seems a far more efficient solution to let things randomly break at a point for a nice, yet messy, reset on societal cognition.