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This is generally considered a dangerous line of thinking, but I believe society has become too soft. We're so frightened of mystical thinking and being wrong t
by darkerside 5y ago
This is generally considered a dangerous line of thinking, but I believe society has become too soft. We're so frightened of mystical thinking and being wrong that people aren't willing to entertain "dumb" ideas.
Just don't make the mistake of thinking it's anything more than speculation.
- ZanyProgrammer 5y ago> We're so frightened of mystical thinking and being wrong that people aren't willing to entertain "dumb" ideas. As the pandemic has showed, quite the contrary we embrace too many "dumb" ideas.
- darkerside 5y agoThis is what I'm talking about, folks!
- retrac 5y agoUnconventional might be the word you want, more than "dumb". In a way, despite our general tolerance and diversity of thought, I've come to believe we're an extremely orthodox culture. As a general rule, there is a right way to do something, someone has almost certainly already discovered it, and your job as an artisan, engineer, or anyone else, is to look that correct way up in a book, and do it that way. Just inventing your own take on something considered settled is thought to be extremely eccentric, possibly even a sign of madness.
- darkerside 5y agoYep. It's ironically very unscientific.
- wheelerof4te 5y agoPlenty of people were afraid of "dangerous thinking", so we stagnated as a species during the middle ages. That's why some civilizations were more advanced thusands of years ago than, say, Britain during the 1200's.