“Why do you believe X?”
“Well, so-and-so believes X, so it’s sort of ‘in’ right now, and I like the aesthetic you know? And the outgroup believes Y so—“
“But do you think X is true?”
“What’s that got to do with anything?”

— Curl Of Gradient (@CurlOfGradient) July 7, 2021

This is the thinking of 99% of humanity 99% of the time. Drives me mad.