{"id":162297,"date":"2025-07-20T06:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=162297"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:45:28","slug":"i-dont-like-contempt-before-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=162297","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Like Contempt Before Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not immune from this tendency.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT says: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here are common examples of contempt before investigation:<\/p>\n<p>AI is just hype \u2013 Dismissing AI as a passing fad or gimmick without learning how it&#8217;s already reshaping industries, relationships, and cognition itself.<\/p>\n<p>Therapy is for weak people \u2013 Writing off psychological work as self-indulgent or unnecessary without understanding trauma, patterns, or the impact of unprocessed experience.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just conspiracy theory \u2013 Disregarding alternative explanations or inconvenient evidence without looking at the source or reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s just a criminal \u2013 Condemning someone based on a label or past behavior without considering context, systems, or change.<\/p>\n<p>Philosophy is useless \u2013 Dismissing an entire discipline that questions meaning, ethics, and logic just because it\u2019s not overtly practical.<\/p>\n<p>Spirituality is nonsense \u2013 Mocking practices like meditation, prayer, or ritual without considering their psychological or cultural depth.<\/p>\n<p>Young people are lazy \u2013 Ignoring the realities of generational shifts, economic conditions, and new value systems.<\/p>\n<p>That art is garbage \u2013 Dismissing new or challenging art as meaningless without asking what it\u2019s trying to express.<\/p>\n<p>That country is backward \u2013 Judging a culture or nation through a narrow lens without understanding its history, values, or challenges.<\/p>\n<p>She only got the job because of diversity quotas \u2013 Reducing someone&#8217;s achievement to a policy without investigating her actual qualifications or experience.<\/p>\n<p>At the core, contempt before investigation is ego protecting itself from discomfort, ambiguity, or the work of understanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not immune from this tendency. ChatGPT says: Here are common examples of contempt before investigation: AI is just hype \u2013 Dismissing AI as a passing fad or gimmick without learning how it&#8217;s already reshaping industries, relationships, and cognition itself. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=162297\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162298,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162297\/revisions\/162298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}