TL;DR is basically in the title
As I stated in the title: they're noticing things andnd I think this may actually be an awakening for some.
I will not go so far as to call them NPCs for multiple reasons, one being that the people I am mostly talking about saw through Heard's bullshit claims and supported Depp, a male who suffered domestic abuse at the hands of a woman. Those of which are not usually listened to, or shown compassion and sometimes even mocked.
They're looking at outlets like Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The New York Times, etc, etc (those the left usually gravitates towards) and noticing the lying these oulets are doing regarding Depp and how this trial will "silence women who experience abuse", despite evidence presented in the trial which, for those of who don't know, was televised and livestreamed so there is no question what happened, what evidence was presented, how the two parties - plaintiff and defendant - came off during, etc.
I don't want to go looking for it but you can find twitter posts from an attorney of (((Harvey Weinstein's))) actually parroting this sentiment of (paraphrased) "this finding will negatively effect female victims of domestic violence."
Ironic, isn't it?
These people - Depp's supporters - are seeing how the leftist media gaslights people, despite the evidence being clear as day.
This is a great thing, not because some of them may lean more to the right from now on, but because they are realising how corrupt and dishonest mainstream - and often legacy - media is and has become.
It's unfortunate, but this kind of shit really is something that we have to exploit to get normies to understand just how much the media is actively lying with malicious intent.
Sure, conservatives are starting to get it, but we also need to explain to apolitical people how bad it is on the same level. Apolitical people just assume that something like the CDC is crafting policies based off of the best evidence they have. They do not assume that the CDC is deliberately spreading disinformation that they know will actively kill people for political or fiscal purposes alone, while explicitly gaslighting everyone who already knows that they are diverting from reality.
To a lot of apolitical people, the institution's default Leftism isn't even noticed, and they don't even hear other perspectives.
This is why I've had to had arguments with left-wing midwits that the vaccines don't immunize or inoculate you from getting covid, and never did. I normally had to read their own MSNBC articles and scientific studies back to them which actually agree with me (but frame it in a way that suggests that the truth is just a rare occurrence). They are not even reading their own materials, they are simply absorbing the emotional connotations.
Normies are the people who basically see the headlines, walk away, and use the general population as an informational filter. But what happens when the general population has been weaponized with mass psychosis? They go completely along.
You would not believe how many Leftwingers think that there wasn't any significant political violence in 2020. The establishment Left are lying to their own audience at a cyclic rate.
And we do come across as crazy when we say "No, you don't understand everything they said was a lie. Nothing you believe is true." And yeah, that is normally a pretty crazy thing to say. Even people acting in bad faith typically have to tell the truth regularly enough to appear legitimate. But for the most part, unless you're looking at primary sources, the authorities and institutions are just pushing complete fiction, and normies won't pick it up until it hits something they know intimately. Like a kind of extreme version of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
When this Amber Herd and Johnny Depp stuff starts happening, we need to try and explain to normies that the whole reason the media is acting the way it is, is because they are being literally paid by Amber Herd's PR team to report this way, and they have political agendas that correspond with promoting outrage over Amber Herd's sanction. We need to explain and show that they have literally less than zero interest in telling any aspect of the truth regarding the case.
It reminds me a lot of when Ronda Rousey was in the middle of her extreme hype train before being derailed by a head kick from Holly Holm. People who had no real knowledge of MMA thought she was the greatest of all time, while people who were dedicated fans were screaming that she was good at Judo, but calling her the greatest striker of all time in any sport is laughably insane. They were posting gifs of her throwing ghost punches that looked like she didn't even know how to close her fists. This hype is why her odds against Holm were as lopsided as they were.
The reality is absolutely no one outside of MMA gave even one iota of a shit about reality, and just wanted more hype. And although that hype wasn't entirely partisan, and was mostly just an ad campaign from UFC and her literally insane manager; it was still partly partisan.
In Amber Herd's case, it's explicitly partisan, and we need to draw attention to that.
This brings back memories, and as you say you really need to start small, and give them a piece of string so they can try and unravel it themselves (or at least that is my understanding)
No, yeah, that's the only way to do it.
They have to basically learn from themselves, one step at a time, walking them through it by giving them experience. Not only is this how you teach Quantum Mechanics to people (because it is purely abstract and counter-intuitive), but it's basically what Thomas Sowell tries to explain in "Knowledge & Decisions".
Reminds me, I need to get started on learning quantum, any good book as introduction for it?
Quantumn Mechanics is hard.
You might need more than one book, tbh. It's a bit convoluted with higher level mathematics, though the first thing you need to understand is differential equations and vector math.
I can't tell you what the best book is, but I can tell you what basically everyone uses.
The one I learned with for my undergraduate degree, and I thought it wasn't too bad was:
However, what everyone uses as the basic guidebook of all QM for your Masters & PhD is:
If you're genuinely going to go into QM, you need that book, because it'll be your text book at some point, and you might as well get it out of the way now. That being said, I fucking HATE Shankar. He wrote this motherfucker.
Shankar is fucking indecipherable. And that "basic training" is genuinely one of the worst fucking math textbooks I've ever had. He literally explains nothing. He presents vague word problems, that don't really go into detail, asks odd questions, then there are answers. He shows almost no work. I wouldn't be surprised if he was pulling the same shit with his QM book, so don't hesitate to get a better textbook to decipher his QM book.
Read some of those fucking one star reviews:
This book expects you to already know and understand what it's trying to teach you. The author glosses over large portions of arithmetic, skipping from one formula to a vastly different one, just by saying "it's obvious" and then moving on. No reasoning, no steps on how to get there, just a chasm to leap over. It even says in the first chapter that, "If you find any portion where you seem to be weak, you must find a book on calculus [...] and remedy that defect at once."
Unless you're math knowledge is fluent and fresh (as in the past year) through DifEQ, you'll likely find this book as frustrating as the worst math teacher you've ever had - multiple and important steps skipped, use of theorems w/o explanation, vague explanations, the works. The book could have included those missing steps along with at least a brief explanation of theorems used and why, without expanding the length of the book by more than a few dozen pages. Their absence is just lazy writing. In difference to the book description, this book is not for people looking to brush up their skills. It's at best a reference or review book for people already fluent in the subjects covered.
...basically stacks of higher level theorems with proofs but with no clearly apparent purpose...the author claims that working through the book will make a student more prepared...however, at no point does he offer proof or even an explanation of how...he doesn't even offer relevance to any particular area of science...suggested alternatives are texts by Boas, Sneider, and Arfken/Weber...
If you know the math already, you don't need this book. If don't know the math, there is no way you will able to learn from this book.
The man thinks "Basic Training" means: "You already know the material and I'm just reciting it to you."
No you idiot, that's fucking wrong.
"A Fitness Program", what fucking fitness program starts with: Do a 3 mile run in 18 minutes.
God I fucking hate Shankar
I like how that's true and still completely crazy, because whenever someone tells their story of walking away from the Democrat party, they say "OF COURSE I voted Democrat. I was a default Democrat. That's what everyone around me was. You come out of school voting Democrat because that's regular people do." Even the supposed apolitical types are like that.
Yup. That's the problem of nearly over 120 years of Progressive institutional thought dominating every institution.
I kind of feel like "Everything You Know Is Wrong" by Weird Al Yankovic keeps feeling more relatable as time goes on.
I was humming it while reading the comments above this link.
nice