But at least you can understand what it's like for people to be wrong *and* certain.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Yes. It really scares me. I really think this flaw will be the ultimate cause of human extinction.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm not so sure. I still have some optimism that the good ideas will eventually win.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
Psychology is really powerful and reason seems so weak. But reason keeps on plodding away, moving us forward by degrees.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Historically, it goes in waves. People embrace reason & advance, then lose it & sink back. Course, each time we add a bit.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It proceeds in fits and starts. It may be that we're hitting a hiccup. A temporary setback.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
But I worry cos sometimes that setback lasts centuries. But there's usually some humans carrying the torch.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
When the Romans went peculiar, fortunately the Arabs/Muslims kept the work of the Greeks alive & when they did, Christendom.
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But there's so much knowledge now. Hard to see how anyone could snuff out the flame.
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Can carry around libraries worth of knowledge on a small device. Hard to see how we can go too far backwards.
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The postmodern mentality. Different attitudes towards knowledge inspiring bizarre 'theory' &reactionary anti-intellectualism
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