Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.

  Willful Ignorance

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yah it’s something like that, the WWE/kayfabe thing but spreading through reality broadly, where one chooses to believe something they know isn’t true, and thus it becomes true to them. Abandoning of accountability for one’s own beliefs and embracing whatever corresponds to whatever feels most validating or satisfying. I lost a family member to this in the form of conspiracism and delusion, instead of getting help for voices and visions, they found a community to support them and started making money from people seeking meaning and truth (the truth they want to hear that is) and as a result just tripled down on every crazy idea and was eventually arrested for taking a weapon to a school and was eventually released and went right back to their supportive community online.

    I think the AI/atomized internet is going to either destroy us all, or it will force some people to actually reconcile their weaknesses as a cognitive being and how limited and vulnerable our minds really are in order to create safeguards against the most devious mental traps imaginable.

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    • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

      youtube.com/shorts/gs1-ebayUIs

      Some links you may find interesting. It took me a few sittings to finish it because there’s so much information to process but I highly recommend watching that documentary.

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      • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve heard some of this before but I’ll dive in deeper and make myself even more depressed for the sake of understanding.

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  • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Got me remembering Badiou’s Ethics and how part of evil involves “fidelity to the lie” and actively denying the shared truth of reality.

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  bonpote.com/…/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity…

  Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation

  Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

  Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.

  Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.

  Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am saving this, it’s very well said.

    For real, I thought I knew this, I thought I was aware of the problem, then when covid hit I had an actual mental breakdown realizing just how bad it actually is, how the number of people who have cognitive thoughts is actually a slim, slim margin of the population and how “stuck” we are as a species.

    What’s worse is we’ve taken ourselves out of selective processes for improvement. We will never, ever get smarter or fix this because it offers our species no advantages to do so.

    We will never have the stars. I mourned that fact.

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OOOOF. This is a gooder. Cuz like, technically being terrible at math is an independent characteristic, meaning that I can’t categorize you as stupid, which would adhere to the 4th law.

      Congratulations. You solved stupidity.

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then you really know your people.

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  • MunkyNutts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIL of the godfather of the quadrant meme, is that the name?

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nolan Chart.

      Not to be confused with Gartner Chart.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like it’s worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person

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    • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes that’s what rule 2 is for.

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      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just think it could stand to be more explicit. Some people, being stupid, wouldn’t be able to figure out that they may themselves be stupid based only on those laws

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• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a combination of both. Stupid people stuck in echo chambers being brainwashed and manipulate by the evil people. 

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s called having a belief.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you mean faith? People believe lots of stuff for good reasons.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no. just belief. people believe in all sort of arbitrary nonsense.

      i dated a woman who thought eating breakfast was only for children, for example. she basically told me i was a man-child for wanting to eat food before noon.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you believe this to be true?

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• architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At some point I’m not going to care if the punch you’re swinging at me is from ignorance or not. I’m still getting hit and I’d be stupid not to defend myself.

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