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 Shortcut thinking means making conclusions by established associations (such as "theft = bad", "[fair](fair.md)" = "good") rather than making the extra effort of inferring actual conclusions based on new context such as different circumstances or newly discovered facts. This isn't bad in itself, in fact it is a great and necessary [optimization](optimization.md) of our thinking process, a kind of [cache](cache.md), and it's really why we have long term memory -- imagine we'd have to deduce all the facts from scratch each time we thought about anything. However shortcut thinking can be a weakness in many situations and leaves people prone to manipulation by [propaganda](propaganda.md) which twists meanings of words (such as "open mind", ["rationality"](pseudoskepticism.md), "[progress](progress.md)", ["theft"](intellectual_property.md), ["science"](soyence.md) etc.), relying on people accepting the unacceptable by having them bypass the thinking process with the mental shortcut. As such this phenomenon is extremely abused by politicians, i.e. they for example try to shift the meaning of a certain negative word to include something they want to get rid of, to have it rejected just based on its name.
 
-Some commonly held associations appearing in shortcut thinking of common people nowadays are for example "piracy = theft = bad", "laziness = bad", "[fairness](fair.md) = good", "pedophiles = child rapists = bad", "[competition](competition.md) = [progress](progress.md) = good", "more [jobs](work.md) = good", "more [complex technology](capitalist_software.md) = better", "open mind = blindly trusting those officially declared smarter than myself = good" etc. Of those most are of course either extremely simplified or just plain wrong. however some association may still of course be correct, such as "murder = bad", which is an association that e.g. [military](military.md) tries to get rid of by calling the acts of murder they commit something else, e.g. "defense", "[justice](justice.md)" etc.
+Some commonly held associations appearing in shortcut thinking of common people nowadays are for example "[update](update_culture.md) = good", "[modern](modern.md) = good", "[democracy](democracy.md) = good", "[piracy](piracy.md) = theft = bad", "laziness = bad", "[fairness](fair.md) = good", "pedophiles = child rapists = bad", "[competition](competition.md) = [progress](progress.md) = good", "more [jobs](work.md) = good", "more [complex technology](capitalist_software.md) = better", "open mind = blindly trusting those officially declared smarter than myself = good" etc. Of those most are of course either extremely simplified or just plain wrong. however some association may still of course be correct, such as "murder = bad", which is an association that e.g. [military](military.md) tries to get rid of by calling the acts of murder they commit something else, e.g. "defense", "[justice](justice.md)" etc.
 
 Let's focus on the specific **example** of the association "fair = good" -- when we hear something is *fair*, we automatically give it a positive meaning, we see it as good. It is so because our society is, and mostly has been, based on [competition](competition.md) and in that fairness is key so as to ensure that the stronger wins and weaker loses, i.e. fairness is an attribute that any competitive system needs in order to work correctly. However when we start to aim to remove competitive society and replace it with [altruistic one](less_retarded_society.md) -- a society in which one doesn't have to prove his worth or be slave in order to deserve the right to live -- fairness becomes a BAD attribute. If we want the same well being for everyone, fairness is bad because it goes against this goal, it gives more to some (the stronger) than to other (the weaker).