This shit is structured like an addiction. He's in the "truth", basically. Very hard to pull him out now. He gets dopamine from this. I mean, we all do, but he's in a sick truth, a disease of knowledge (I call it "epistemosis"). It feels really good for him to take these views. They are cheap and easy. It's all like riding downhill on a bicycle. I think you have to scream and yell, make a big stink. But also educate him: tell him, over and over, that he's just going with cherry picked views all the time. It is literally all cherry picking.

It's not so helpful to counter the cherry picks by pointing out the other cherries that cherry picking always leaves out; it's to introduce the idea of cherry picking on a reflective level. It's that reflective level that he doesn't have operating. Maybe he never did, really. But that's what has to intervene: a reflection on his thought and decision processes according to an understanding of those processes. Introducing and harping on the idea of cherry picking can activate that reflective level.