If you don’t pay close attention, all your preferences could end up being not what you actually enjoy but what is high status or what will not anger your tribe

In a weird way with the advent of social media this is happening at scale that is unprecedented 

The other weird thing is all of our preferences are starting to converge; go to Italy in the summer if you are in the US, go to Venice, get a house, get the same instagram ad furniture, wear lulu lemon

Unconsciously were being herded, dangerous if you are not present

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This is true on many levels. Perhaps the term for it could be Attention Capture.

I find the most dangerous form of this is in politics; if the average person states their position on any issue there is a very high chance that you can predict their position on most other political issues - heterodox thinking is becoming more rare. 

This is dangerous bc it indicates two things: that people "download" their political views from somewhere, instead of coming to conclusions based on their life experience, reading, etc.

It also means that we're diminishing our capacity for sensemaking and our ability to successfully respond to crises.

Think what could have happened if during the Cuban Missile Crisis instead of having a "field" of options to choose from JFK's advisors could only come up with 2-3 choices due to ideological Attention Capture. Very dangerous indeed.