This post would have gotten more mileage on Reddit.
I think the Reddit crowd would have mostly had the ability to laugh at itself on this one.
Most of the responses on here are acting pretty triggered.
You’re absolutely right. It couldn’t possibly have a bad message or promote anti-intellectualism or anything, it is 100% the fault of people who value philosophy and poetry and meaningful thought. How dare they not walk on eggshells around the proudly ignorant
It is anti intellectual. Idk why it has so many upvotes
Not much that wouldn’t mate.
In the right communities, yeah, but lemmy is highly fragmented
Learning philosophy (and sciences, arts, etc.) is great. I think their real problem is to be dogmatic or arrogant, which is ironic.
People in this thread take themselves wya too seriously
Sounds like OP lost an argument and is throwing a clever meme-tantrum.
what if we live in a simulation
Matrix (1999) was way ahead of you. Other works of fiction as well.
how is this so accurate?
Easy. All these people grew up on the internet looking at the same websites, reading the same meme, laughing at the same threads.
Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda
Isn’t the phrase closer to “what is stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”?
It could also be a reference to boondocks
You forgot “logic” and “mushrooms” 🙄
I love mushrooms, it’s the only logic approach to tendering rabbit for a stew.
Turned this into a list without OP’s negative framing on them If people genuinely want to look it up later without a negative framing
Because I see no reason to frame them negatively like op has done as these topics are not inherently negative unlike OP’s negative bias of them
And bigots using them doesn’t make them Inherently negative either
- Correlation does not equal causation
- Language shapes thought
- Artificial intelligence
- Stanford prison experiment
- Iambic pentameter
- Schrodinger’s cat
- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
- Biblically accurate angels
- What if we live in a simulation ?
- Video essay
- Nuance
- Plato’s cave
- Infographics
- Linguistic prescriptivism
Edit: unnoticed typo
“Think different.”
“YES! WE ALL THINK DIFFERENT!”In unison, of course, like Life Of Brian.
Bonus points for bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.“I don’t…”
Wait, im 20 something?
Thank god I has this phase at 16.
I am 17 and that’s me and it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon.
The trick is to read even more philosophy and become even more insufferable.
I will
Thank someone you had the phase at all.
I mean, a lot of these things are good things to consider/know about. For example, you do always have to consider that correlation is not necessarily causation. They’re not really considering the most deep of philosophy, but thinking is generally better than not thinking.
I bet OP thinks that Ben Shapiro qualifies as “thinker”
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Oh my god, that’s something that gets under my skin so very quickly and it’s sadly so common. It’s such a specifically arrogant kind of strawmanning where you’re telling someone else what they think sometimes even in direct contradiction to what they say. Like “you’re just jealous” or “you just want to ____”. It just reeks of anti-intellectualism and everyone is worse off with every use. We desperately need more people to learn the principles of philosophy, and maybe even more specifically of epistemology.
That’s basically what this post is
At least they “think” in contrast to the majority of working bots and angry Twitter idiots. I’d rather deal with a person who tries to have a concept.
Pretty much, my thoughts too since the alternative is them regurgitating whatever opinion they happen to agree with. It’s impossible to have a meaningful conversation if the other person can’t even turn their brain on past repeating what their preacher/pundit/candidate told them.
And I thought I was a real intellectual in my days… That’s exactly what I pested my teachers and fellow students with. In the '90s, though.
Sounds like you were! School is exactly when a person ought to learn this stuff.
