What used to really baffle me was when my mother would say things like "how can you know what to trust on the news?" (She is like this after moving to and living in a very conservative area for a long time). I never knew how to respond, simply because I would have thought she would be able to think through information and be able to decipher what is bullshit. It usually isn't that hard for me at least, and now I realize what it is.
It's basic reading comprehension.
Americans are illiterate and can't deduce anything further than what something literally says. They don't have critical thinking skills about inferring anything like "spin" on news articles. They have just been told to trust certain news sources by the people around them that they already trust. It is actually rather alarming when you realize they are all mentally 6 year olds that have been taught to read but not think. Because of this it is an accepted fact of our culture that news has to be dispensed from something they have decided is a trustworthy source and follow it unquestioningly. The very idea of critical thinking is something that is alien, or not considered as realistic.
Had a distant friend try to send me the Joe Rogan interview with some discredited scientist about mRNA vaccines and I told him I wasn't going to watch that trash. I didn't discuss it further and I think he took my refusal as proof that mRNA vaccines are a matter of opinion (As far as I know I think he is anti-vax himself). The fact that he takes a Joe Rogan interview as medical advice or evidence is further indication of basically how fucked the American brain really is, and he isn't even a boomer.
Really looking forward to Lysenkoism with American Characteristics brought to you by Fox News (Sponsored by Gatorade- Taste the Electrolytes!) in 10 years.
What used to really baffle me was when my mother would say things like "how can you know what to trust on the news?" (She is like this after moving to and living in a very conservative area for a long time). I never knew how to respond, simply because I would have thought she would be able to think through information and be able to decipher what is bullshit. It usually isn't that hard for me at least, and now I realize what it is.
It's basic reading comprehension.
Americans are illiterate and can't deduce anything further than what something literally says. They don't have critical thinking skills about inferring anything like "spin" on news articles. They have just been told to trust certain news sources by the people around them that they already trust. It is actually rather alarming when you realize they are all mentally 6 year olds that have been taught to read but not think. Because of this it is an accepted fact of our culture that news has to be dispensed from something they have decided is a trustworthy source and follow it unquestioningly. The very idea of critical thinking is something that is alien, or not considered as realistic.
Had a distant friend try to send me the Joe Rogan interview with some discredited scientist about mRNA vaccines and I told him I wasn't going to watch that trash. I didn't discuss it further and I think he took my refusal as proof that mRNA vaccines are a matter of opinion (As far as I know I think he is anti-vax himself). The fact that he takes a Joe Rogan interview as medical advice or evidence is further indication of basically how fucked the American brain really is, and he isn't even a boomer.
Really looking forward to Lysenkoism with American Characteristics brought to you by Fox News (Sponsored by Gatorade- Taste the Electrolytes!) in 10 years.
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Honestly what is horse-paste and sheep-dewormer and piss-drinking if not American Lysenkoism.