petermac33 said...
I know this whiz-kid uni student,brought up what evil panda is still in denial over.
After two hours of discussion----did not get past go--- he is also in denial.
He has a great life----so why go there?
Put barriers up to everything i said. Example, you don't know for sure that fire can't weaken steel to point of collapse,and on and on.
Next day had the worst headache.Now don't go there unless they have an open mind.
The problem is some people out source their thinking.
People who have good communication skills, they're educated and well read, have simply made the decision to form a trust relationships with people and organizations.
They won't look at the evidence, because they have been told something from somebody they trust, so they have no need to waste their time looking in to what some nut has said on a forum.
So what are you going to do, pop their bubble? Break their trust relation?
It's quite easy to identify outsource'ers... they'll ignore the content of a message, and focus on the messenger.
Person X is a drug addict.
Person Y has certification blah.
It happens to all walks, event conspiracy nuts who put their trust in a messenger instead of analysing the message.
A lot of trust relationships are formed by following somebody else you trust... like my dad believes the Bible, so I believe it too.
The crowd believes iPhones are best, so I want an iPhone... use case doesn't even come in to the equation.
So why question and analyse everything, when you can follow?
I remember as a kid, asking a school mate "did you see that news report", and he said "you can't believe everything you see on the news" and I thought, what an idiot, as if they'd lie on the evening news.
It wasn't for a good many more years that I finally awoke from the bliss of my ignorance... and I'm not sure about being better off.
But as a famous person once said,
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.