smart people don't think enough about how stupid people think. like we just didn't bother anticipating their shortcomings and accomodating the knowledge gaps. ANYWHERE. IN. SOCIETY. we were programmed to loathe the spiritual expenditure of helping our neighbors; to share.
now they're dabbing on us. the dumbs are dabbing on us.
i vow to think of the stupids, for I too am one.
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#DemonHauntedWorld is what USA society breeds with avoidance of "bad people", instead of learning about how the human brain works, how education and teaching works like #MalalaYousafzai does with #Terrorists - people can't even recognize #DonaldTrump as badness.
@VeroniqueB99 Yikes. That Carl Sagan quotation looks alarmingly prophetic now.
I just looked it up in my copy of The Demon-Haunted World. It's on page 25.
I remember dismissing that passage as unrealistically apocalyptic when I read it, while I was living in the US, and yet here we are.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
> The Consolation of Haldane depends, though, on what kind of universe we live in, and maybe on such arcana as whether there's enough matter eventually to reverse the expansion of the universe, and the character of vacuum fluctuations. Those with a deep longing for life after death might, it seems, devote themselves to cosmology, quantum gravity, elementary particle physics, and, especially, transfinite arithmetic.
-- Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World
Sagan does not agree with Haldane, but I think "why not?"
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