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This flavor of debunking reminds me of mocking someone who is deliberately engaging in self-parody. Of course this isn't Atlantis, but perhaps the purpose of t
by aww_dang 5y ago
This flavor of debunking reminds me of mocking someone who is deliberately engaging in self-parody.
Of course this isn't Atlantis, but perhaps the purpose of these videos is to stimulate the imagination. Perhaps in another time these content creators would have written a fantasy/adventure novel, like Clive Cussler. Instead we have 'fringe' YouTube videos.
The format requires the theory to not be presented as fiction, but an imaginative "what if" scenario. It doesn't require unquestioning, dogmatic belief. This is where the institutional dullards go off the rails. There is a paradigm difference they can't appreciate.
Next we'll have fact check censorship asserting that the Earth is indeed round. At this point truthiness itself has become unintentionally self-parodying.
Which is the greater faux pas? Believing in an indulgent fantasy scenario out of an over eager desire to stimulate one's imagination, or humorlessly insisting that such a fantasy is worthy of debunking?
- andrewflnr 5y agoDon't defend this crap as somehow being their only outlet. Creative people who want to make fiction can still do make it. People who want to present their fiction as truth should be called out as the liars they are. We've seen enough of the effects of people who spread bullshit and then pretend they "never really meant anyone to believe it" that we should not give them the slightest quarter.
- alexvoda 5y agoHumorlessly debunking stuff is necessary when the group of people confusing fiction with reality grows. Unfortunately there is plenty of humorless debunking to be done until humanity can safely engage in fiction without having said fiction affect policy decisions. Fiction influencing policy has been the norm throughout human history.