Interesting is the enemy of true.

Interesting is what contradicts common sense, and we often tend to give it too much value. - see the index of interesting.

If something contradicts common sense, but at the same time confirms some of our pre existing opinions or un-crystallized beliefs, we’ll tend to give it credit as true.

Eg. A lot of Marx, all the concept of power dynamics, constructivism, Yuval Harari, evolutionary psychology, ecc and all the debate about systemic power and privilege

Aristotle is not interesting, what he says is mainly common sense.

Marx, Freud Nietzche, Darwin (“the masters of suspicion”), Einstein, Heisenberg: they are counterintuitive, so they are interesting. Modernity is built on their ideas, on a rebellion to the intuitiveness, common-sense-ness of Aristotle.

In a way today existentialism and post-modernism are the ultimate counter-intuitive thought

And then starting in the 60s spirituality became interesting again, and until now young people are defining themselves in opposition to the “materialism” of their boomer parents.

The same kind of thinking is what gives rise to conspiracy theories, reptilians, flat earthers, etc.

See the Index of interesting:

https://productlogic.org/the-index-of-the-interesting/

(i) Organization

a. What seems to be disorganized (unstructured) phenomenon is in reality an organized (structured) phenomenon.

b. What seems to be an organized (structured) phenomenon is in reality a disorganized (unstructured) phenomenon.

(ii) Composition

a. What seem to be assorted heterogeneous phenomena are in reality composed of a single element.