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Aug 13, 2021Liked by Parker Molloy

This is excellent: really appreciate all the examples provided of people hearing what they want to hear. "Brains are weird" is definitely part of this, but I wonder about how these confusions follow along the lines of what the "You're Wrong About" crew might call "moral panic." "People heard him say X even though he very clearly DIDN'T say X because we know more people say X than we were led to believe."

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Thanks for reading! And yeah, I think there's definitely that aspect of it as part of this, as well.

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I wasn’t prepared for Scott Stapp

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No one ever expects the Scott Stapp. No one!

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