Today they are willfully ignorant in spite of having the facts available.
What “facts”, because all kinds of stuff, once vetted by media is now equally represented as “facts” and “Science”, all over social media.
The biggest problem we have right now is confidence bias, because you can find “facts” to support any predjudice, then call it “common sense”.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
the issue with becoming more knowledgable about the world is you feel less special.
and people are desperate to feel special. our entire consumer economy is built around it.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Dunno, I’m autistic, I love feeling less special. That usually involves meeting right kind of people.