There’s an old saying that I’ve grown quite fond of recently: you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. When most of us “research” an issue, what we are actually doing is:
formulating an initial opinion the first time we hear about something,
evaluating everything we encounter after that through that lens of our gut instinct,
finding reasons to think positively about the portions of the narrative that support or justify our initial opinion,
and finding reasons to discount or otherwise dismiss the portions that detract from it.
while failing to see that writer himself does exact this
Do the people who write this stuff actually believe it?
Could a person not do some digging without the burden of emotion and confirmation bias?
If this was not possible how in the actual fuck did America get to the moon? Or make possible the billions of other human achievements throughout history?
Likely purpose of the story is to reinforce the idea that everything in the realm of government and science is well beyond the meager mental capabilities of a lowly peon like you or I. No no, these important decisions should be left to our betters, free of outside influence and emotional reasoning, better people than you or I. I know this because they tell me so every day on the television.
Obviously well educated authority figures did all those things. Not us stupid plebs.
And yes I think the people writing this stuff actually believe it because most things are beyond their meager mental capabilities. The typical journalist could NOT hope to understand any scientific paper. Science is magic to them.
funny how writer asserts that:
while failing to see that writer himself does exact this
Do the people who write this stuff actually believe it? Could a person not do some digging without the burden of emotion and confirmation bias? If this was not possible how in the actual fuck did America get to the moon? Or make possible the billions of other human achievements throughout history?
Likely purpose of the story is to reinforce the idea that everything in the realm of government and science is well beyond the meager mental capabilities of a lowly peon like you or I. No no, these important decisions should be left to our betters, free of outside influence and emotional reasoning, better people than you or I. I know this because they tell me so every day on the television.
Obviously well educated authority figures did all those things. Not us stupid plebs.
And yes I think the people writing this stuff actually believe it because most things are beyond their meager mental capabilities. The typical journalist could NOT hope to understand any scientific paper. Science is magic to them.
"Sniffing (their own) farts" and all that...
Has never been more true, honestly, lol. Depressingly...