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Lies might be successful, but that doesn't mean people don't care about truth. A lot of mythology served the precise purpose of explaining something that people
by Jeff_Brown 3y ago
Lies might be successful, but that doesn't mean people don't care about truth. A lot of mythology served the precise purpose of explaining something that people couldn't otherwise explain, like lightning. Once science provides a more compelling story, it can become hard to go back.
- svachalek 3y ago> Once science provides a more compelling story, it can become hard to go back. I get the feeling you haven't gone out in a while.
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoOf course a lot of the stories science tells are difficult enough that most people haven't internalized them. But, for instance, nobody thinks lightning is thrown by a god anymore -- and that's without even understanding the details of meteorology. It just makes more sense to the ordinary person that stuff crashing into stuff in the atmosphere would make electricity. That is, it's a compelling story, and I don't expect us to backpedal from it.