Imagine being this arrogant
Either absolutely true or most arrogant shit I seen.
What’s the context?When you realize the amount you have to teach them before they can even understand your point…
I like to just plant a little seed in moments like this. Even if you just feign ignorance and ask a Socratic question or two… Get their little grey cells working in their sleep maybe. You never know
Might as well try it. The worst that’ll happen is an idiot will stop talking to you about idiot things.
nice meme about everyone who interacts with you
It’s rare to find people who are actually interested in learning anything, most will just parrot something they’ve heard in passing or rely on gut feeling, and if your fact goes against their made up assumption then they will deny what you say rather than look it up and learn, because being seen to not know something hurts their feelings.
You gotta switch their gears from defense ive/debate mode before they’ll even consider what you have to say.
Even then you won’t see the positive change in the moment. It’ll come 2 years later while they’re drying their hair and it all clicks
As an autistic individual who already has enough trouble with social interaction, asking me to dance around the fragile emotional state of someone being willfully ignorant might as well be the same as asking me to sprout wings and fly.
Yeah if it’s not in your skill set no shame in leaving this labour to someone more suited to it
Me when some dumb MF says I’m wrong, when they clearly lack the mental capacity to understand the issue at hand:
My best friend recently told me :
“Did you see the image of the original moon landing ? It looks so so fake”
I was shocked. An engineer with supposedly a scientific background was starting to take on conspiracy theories.
I just said that the moon landing was not fake and that it would have been impossible to fake something on this scale and that there was plenty of documentation about the Apollo mission online.
But I feel sad because it’s obvious his social network interactions online are pushing him toward very toxic content.
It kinda does look fake especially for then. But it also was unlike anything ever done before using technology basically at science fiction level for the 60s. It looks like fiction because it was so advanced for the time it was borderline science fiction. Still amazing evertime I think about it.
Also I do think its somewhat doctored. Nothing malicious you can achieve the same thing with a monitors built in settings, they just fucked with the contrast and some other shit to make it look not weird. Kinda like how Neptune is just kinda greyish blue and not a nice deep blue.
Conspiracy theories are fun to listen to, but you have to be careful not to believe them. I grew up on Bigfoot and UFO stories (being near Mendocino and having farm family does that to you) but, well aside from the family Bigfoot pranks we were very clear it was all make believe.
I wouldn’t put it past the US government to pull some shenanigans, and I certainly wouldn’t rule out the possibility that some aspect of it was a lie. That being said, I have yet to see any evidence that it was faked that isn’t simply a misunderstanding of the science.
That moment when you realize it’s not a debate, it’s a lifetime project 😭
I have the stubbornness and autism required that even if I can’t achieve anything I revel at the challenge. You are going to learn about the bronze age and how the ancients were just people who were culturally alien, like the Siberian peoples of the French. They didn’t have super technology that we can’t replicate, we just have better methods and are lazy, cheap, or don’t want to invest into it.
I assume you’re talking about the “ancient alien” theorists. Are there actually some things that are “impossible” from our current knowledge of their tech tree? I always assumed it was just like “well I’m a lazy modern human and if I pushed these bricks up a ramp I would collapse” sort of thing.
I’m talking about ancient aliens, Graham Hancock, and general woo woo pseudo historian babble. Anyways most of the big mysteries at this point are a matter of specifics like we know how they did every step before and after step five but they didn’t write down step five type shit. Either that or it’s just weird artifacts that we just aren’t precisely sure what they are let alone what they were used for, for example those weird Roman dodecahedrons.
But yeah most of these folks are pointing to shit like stone henge and going “we have no clue how they built these” even though we do know how they were built, for context stone henge was built using sleds, dirt ramps, and lots of manpower. Problem is we have the broad strokes for these but are missing specifics like did they water down the path the sleds went on, did they reuse the dire for other things nearby, or how much manpower did they use. Experimental archeology only gets you so far when you’re working with what amounts to a multiple choice question with no mechanically wrong answers, we know the answer is 16 but the maths they used to get there are unknown.
We don’t always have the time and some ideas are too complex.
But this is what good teachers are good at. You need to relate to your student before you can teach them anything.
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” -Marshall Macluhan.
People are not entertained by “you are wrong I am right.” Literally nobody is. There’s an art to teaching.
The best thing you can do in these situations is to ask a critically reflective question for them to sit with. You can and never have been able to change someone’s mind just like that. What you can is be part of the web of critical thoughts that help them towards thinking critically about their idea.
Yea they’re looking for agreements to help lock in the idea. The algorithms don’t ever have anyone critically questioning them on their little podcasts.
So Be the critical question asker that they forgot to be before buying the idea.
Be Columbo. ‘Oh before I forget Just one last question…’
Loved Peter falk in that show.
It’s the socratic method.
Hits me every time. I may know I am right and the other person is wrong, but the amount of re-education needed for them to realize it - undoable for me
its not worth it to change the minds of those who activly don’t want to know any other thing.
To extend the “planting the seed” metaphor a bit…
Some people try to plant seeds on other peoples minds and let them grow like beautiful flowers.
Some people try to facefuck other people and plant their seeds deep in their throats.
Some people try to facefuck other people and plant their seeds deep in their throats.
This guy comes to mind. Pretty sure he’ll never care to understand the ineffectiveness of his antagonistic approach, in fact his approach always has the opposite and worse effects than he purportedly crusades for.
