LYDIA says:
men get sexier as they get older though
LYDIA says:
women just sag
Warwick says:
yeah thats true
Warwick says:
sort of
LYDIA says:
yes i am not looking forward to all that 'deelastification'
LYDIA says:
hummm i may try and sell Mr Collins that word
men get sexier as they get older though
LYDIA says:
women just sag
Warwick says:
yeah thats true
Warwick says:
sort of
LYDIA says:
yes i am not looking forward to all that 'deelastification'
LYDIA says:
hummm i may try and sell Mr Collins that word
by Andrew Warwick September 12, 2008
Get the deelastification mug.The reflexive urge to strip away all mystery, reverence, or awe from a subject by aggressively reducing it to its most mundane, mechanical, and often cynical explanations. It's the belief that to be intellectually respectable, one must always explain the magic trick, never appreciate the illusion. This bias mistakes reductionism for sophistication, believing that breaking a profound experience into its component parts is the same as understanding it, often leaving a trail of cultural and spiritual impoverishment in its wake.
Example: A person listens to a breathtaking piece of music and is moved to tears. Someone with Demystification Bias immediately interjects: "It's just structured sound waves triggering a dopamine response in your auditory cortex. Here's the fMRI scan." They confuse a neurological correlate with the experience itself, dismissing beauty as a biochemical bug.
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A bias where one systematically demystifies, debunks, or explains away any information that doesn't fit existing frameworks—often under the guise of skepticism or rationality. Demystification Bias presents itself as critical thinking but functions as a defense mechanism: anything unfamiliar, challenging, or anomalous must be reduced to familiar categories, explained away, or revealed as illusion. It's the bias of the person who always has an explanation for why you're wrong.
"Every spiritual experience, every anomalous phenomenon, every challenge to his worldview—he had a debunking ready. Demystification Bias: skepticism as armor, explanation as defense. Not openness to mystery, but the compulsion to eliminate it. The world must fit his framework; anything else gets explained away."
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According to Karolina Żebrowska on her YouTube channel, Barbie has undergone a drastic amount of Deyassification thanks to the ill conceived decisions of Mattel’s higher ups.
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