It's more to the title than article. Megyn Kelly's halo, by virtue of her being a high-status beautiful women, had the (unused) ability to hijack my will
Your reaction was a lot of why I changed the title-- I clearly wasn't saying what I meant.
The original title (from memory) "Blinded by the light-- how people shut down thought because of high-status halos". It still could use some work.
https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/
A detailed look at the belief that high status social structures can be so much better than anything one can think of that there's no point in even trying to think about the details of what to do, and how debilitating this is.
Discussion of the essay