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In my world view, the phrase "People are stupid" explains almost everything. Very few people are actually able to think for themselves. The vast majority are ba
by sfn42 16d ago
In my world view, the phrase "People are stupid" explains almost everything. Very few people are actually able to think for themselves. The vast majority are basically just sheep, they think whatever the media, their colleagues, friends etc tell them to think. They don't fact check, they don't think critically, they can't understand a well reasoned argument, they basically just believe things based on how much they like whoever said it. They won't accept evidence that disproves those beliefs.
They don't care about the truth, it's all just about being part of the right herd.
- oblio 15d agoI agree completely.
- kwarcode 15d ago[dead]
- vakk 15d agoI found this very funny until it made me very sad.
- oblio 15d agohttps://youtu.be/KHbzSif78qQ?si=xWprUIdcae2uo1jd https://youtu.be/KHbzSif78qQ?si=xWprUIdcae2uo1jd
- hiccuphippo 15d agoExactly the video I was expecting it to be. Same herd.
- oblio 15d agoYou've been here 8 years, so... you're just as much part of the same herd as me :-)
- sfn42 15d agoYeah, it is extremely sad. It's why we're currently in the process of going extinct. We, as a species, know what we should be doing. But what we should be doing is not what we are doing, because what we are doing depends on the popularity contest that is politics, and politics has absolutely nothing to do with what we know we should be doing.
- oblio 15d ago> Yeah, it is extremely sad. It's why we're currently in the process of going extinct. We're not going extinct, LOL. We're more resilient than cockroaches. As a species we will survive nuclear apocalypse, climate changes short of turning the planet into Venus and even the collapsing fertility rate.
- blargey 15d agoSuch a world view will justify any belief, because the internet will give you ample supply of the dumbest, most ill-considered opposition to any belief you hold. Doesn't guarantee there isn't a steel version of their straw out there that you're deliberately ignoring.
- sfn42 15d agoIf I had seen the steel version I would have considered it. But all I see is strawmen, as far as the eye can see. An ocean of strawmen, with a few steel islands here and there.
- ryandrake 15d agoThis just sounds like an im14andthisisdeep rant. Everyone is stupid, except you, of course, who are enlightened and detached from "the herd."
- hyperhello 15d ago[flagged]
- its_ethan 15d agoand followed up with a classic "I know you are but what am I" by you lol this thread looks like it's folding in on itself
- hyperhello 15d agoI had to talk back, but if insults and down votes solved anything there would be no insults or down votes.
- wizzwizz4 15d agoWhy did you have to?
- hyperhello 15d agoWell, why did you?
- wizzwizz4 15d agoI felt you might benefit from the question. Feel free to answer it privately: there's little benefit in me hearing your answer.
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- wredcoll 15d agoNobody has time to fact check every single fact we need to act on. Have you read every single study about the last vaccine you took and what the positives and negatives are and where potential problems are and so on? Of course not, we trust that the experts have done enough. Same with learning physics or driving over a bridge and so many other things.
- sfn42 15d agoYeah, exactly. But many people vehemently believe vaccines are dangerous and so on. Similarly, a common talking point right now are data centers and their power and water usage. Just yesterday I was told that AI data centers pollute more than anything else. Yet when I took 10 seconds to Google it I found that data centers represented about 0,5% of power consumption and I know that electricity in general is less than half of all pollution so clearly data centers don't pollute that much. But people will parrot these types of "facts" without even taking 10 seconds to double check.