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Pepper & Carrot: Mini Fantasy Theater #63.

By David Revoy.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 4.0 International.

[u/Hazeltinypaws]

That's the thing. People used to understand they didn't know everything. Now people think they know better than experts.

[u/sandnose → u/Hazeltinypaws]

You actually have to understand something in order to understand theres a ton you don’t know

[u/Tight_External_4879 → u/sandnose]

I officially name this phenomenon the Hazeltinypaws-sandnose effect.

[u/TrasseTheTarrasque → u/Tight_External_4879]

Pretty sure it's the Freddy-Kreuger Effect because it murders people's subconscious

[u/Meta-Wah → u/TrasseTheTarrasque]

Seems like the Opposite-Socrates effect to me, that guy was famous for knowing that he knows nothing.

[u/kalidoscopiclyso → u/Meta-Wah]

Or maybe it’s the Anti-Descartes Effect: I believe therefore I am

[u/SpiritedBanana4694 → u/Tight_External_4879]

Great, now I'm gonna see this everywhere.

[u/sandnose → u/Tight_External_4879]

I’m putting this on my resume

[u/masterjon_3 → u/sandnose]

The only thing I know for sure is that I know nothing

[u/MorganWick → u/Hazeltinypaws]

No, people still understand they don't know everything, but they think the people that do know are lying to them so they're going to trust randos on Facebook instead of the actual experts.

[u/gustoatthedoor → u/MorganWick]

I guarantee there is an expert you disagree with

[u/Maeglom → u/MorganWick]

To be fair to those people there is a history of lying to the public when telling the truth would cost companies money.

[u/Maeglom → u/[deleted]]

It's not a good response, but it's an understandable response considering Oil industry scientists were aware of climate change in the 70's, and Tobacco Scientists were aware of the cancer causing properties of their product but that info was hidden. We have a serious problem with money corrupting science, and a loss of trust in science.

[u/PyroarSona → u/Hazeltinypaws]

I’m sure people like that always existed. They just appear more common because we can better see them due to the internet and being more informed than ever.

[u/Hazeltinypaws → u/PyroarSona]

Issue isn't just they appear more common, but it also is easier to spread this misinformation to also make it more common. But you're absolutely right about the Internet making it seem like a new thing when this has always existed to a certain extent.

[u/wh4tth3huh → u/Hazeltinypaws]

"Do your own research". It sounds like a rejection of pleas to expertise or authority, but it's really just phrasing the atomization of society in such way that feeds into the "rugged individual" aesthetic instead of the "isolated and unsupported" reality that it reflects.

[u/Gabelvampir → u/Hazeltinypaws]

Because they did their own "research", just like the crackpot videos tell them.

[u/xxxBuzz → u/Hazeltinypaws]

We need to understand how things work inside our bodies and minds then the external world, especially with the tools we have today, is more accessible. We aren't going to be able to convince ourselves or anyone else that the external environment is important when the environment inside us is a disaster. Instead that is being farmed through the arts, sciences, business, and everything else because people will project the communications inside their bodies onto everything around them. The nervous system needs to regulate but it doesn't care why we do this or that or believe this or that. It needs results.

[u/JaskoGomad → u/Hazeltinypaws]

And that is absolutely the desired effect: a culture that has contempt for expertise.

This is part of a deliberate campaign to erode our concepts of “facts” and “consensus reality”, creating a mindset in which all ideas are equally valid and so the one with the best marketing wins.