Contrarianism is a virtue

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Contrarianism for its own sake is thehl hobby of midwits and faggots
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It’s never good to accept something blindly, but it’s not any better to deny something blind either. If by contrarian you mean critical thinker and cynic, definitely. If you mean that guy that always insists on being the devils advocate, eh, maybe not.
 
Isn't what's being described in the OP optimism, not contrarianism? I've always thought of the latter as disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.
 
"Contrarianism" is the shit test for a society, to see how "water proof" the morals and ideas really are. But as some people already mentioned in this thread, too many midwits/redditors think that they are witty enough to pull it off and end up just wasting everyone’s time.
 
You have a marketing industry out there spending billions to persuade you to waste your money. You need to cultivate a reflexive, “No, fuck you!” just to watch a football game.
 
Contrarianism is like hot sauce; use it strategically and sparingly, it can liven things up and experience new pleasures. Just dump it on everything and it goes to shit.
 
I don't think contrarianism for contrarianism's sake can be said to be a virtue. I do find myself routinely of the opposite opinion of the majority and I have wondered why that is. I try to be self-reflective and do my best to interrogate my own opinions and why I hold them and I feel my logic and reasoning is sound in each and every case, of course I am biased, after all I am me.

Given that human beings are social and tribal creatures that for the survival of our species a level of conformity is a necessity, I wonder if there might be something slightly wrong with my brain that I seem to always end up disagreeing with the majority on things. I don't do it on purpose, its just the way it seems to work out with nearly every issue from covid to russia to whatever other nonsense pops up.

There's that joke about how conspiracy theorists tend to believe in a lot of conspiracies, the idea being that if they just believed in one conspiracy that would make their opinion more credible than them believing in literally every conspiracy. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but by the same token if for every major world event I end up disagreeing with the vast majority of people does that mean I am mentally defective.

I think I am relatively empathetic, I think I understand other peoples perspectives for the most part, I try to be open-minded, but I always end up in fundamental disagreement. It's not contrarianism for contrarianism sake because I could speak at length about why I feel the way I feel and what facts, situations, and information have led me to my conclusions but it is sort of odd that I just always happen to have the opposite opinion of everyone else. Perhaps I am retarded, the part of my brain that is supposed to help me be one of the tribe is bent, and twisted, and gay.
 
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