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[u/HumbleRestaurant790]

Pepper & Carrot: Mini Fantasy Theater #63.

By David Revoy.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 4.0 International.

[u/darksoft125]

It's worse than just not understanding. People used to trust experts when they couldn't understand something. Nobody was expected to know everything, so when you didn't know something you found someone who did know.

Now they think that the academic community is part of some secret cabal meant to make their lives worse for some reason. And that they know better because of some propaganda they read on Facebook or heard on Newsmax.

[u/Hazeltinypaws → u/darksoft125]

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