How to know you're in an egocentric or propaganda-lead bubble/echo-chamber:
1. You are discouraged from considering statistics and external evidence over your personal experience(s) or your social groups (self-serving) conclusions.
2. You are encouraged to use biases and fallacies; especially fallacies such as the straw man, slippery slope, false equivalency, cherry picking and the ad hominem.
3. You are encouraged to be disruptive, dismissive and aggressive... and encourage others to do the same.
4. You are encouraged to slander and dehumanize people that ask questions about power imbalances and injustices.
5. You are encouraged to ignore mainstream academic studies and conclusions; often you are encouraged to equate them with conspiracies.
6. You are encouraged to attack intellectualism and treat speakers as egotistical combatants.
7. You are encouraged to refer to talking points that are based in fallacies, biases and conjecture instead of listing mainstream facts and figures.
8. You are discouraged from Critical Thinking and Socratic Dialogue.
9. You are encouraged to dismiss questions like "what would it take for you to change you mind?".
10. You are encouraged to think that changing your mind is proposing some form of great loss, a probable social threat to further trust, or as a form a "losing face".
