This explains why they turn a blind eye to obvious autocracy: because perceiving the truth would require activating System 2, a task that has simply become too exhausting for them.
In their youth, figures like Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chu Tien-wen were capable of utilizing System 2 thinking to deconstruct the authoritarianism of the KMT. This was possible because they were in their prime, and the KMT’s oppression directly stifled their creative desires.
Objectively, this shift represents a form of intellectual laziness or cognitive regression. They have ceased to be intellectuals in pursuit of truth and have instead become believers guarding an illusion.
Lowest ERA in a season as a rookie, min. 20 starts (since ER official in AL+NL in 1913):
1913 Reb Russell: 1.90
2024 Paul Skenes: 1.96
1914 Jeff Pfeffer: 1.97
1918 Scott Perry: 1.98
Those are the only ones below 2.00… 3 DEAD-BALL ERA PITCHERS AND HIM
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