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They're so proudly ignorant. Every policy board, every think tank, every council is full of people who do intellectual vibes but despise having to actually learn things or think about stuff. They're completely obsessed with misinformation and being the smartest person in the room but have no tolerance for knowledge or curiosity.

Don't ever let them get away with saying the common person is too stupid to understand the real world. They are epistemological vandals. They replace actual knowledge with markets and consider learning to be an exercise in marketing.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

I admit I've read none of the theory but I'm so smart I can figure it out intuitively

debate-me-debate-me

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A book? That's way too complicated for me. I'll stick with simple things I can understand intuitively, like the entire world.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

And so, it really is always just a wacky coincidence that their sage understanding of the world coincidentally fits in nicely with every bias and preconception they have.

At least it's a running joke among the left to tell each other to read theory.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

as someone who has done 'the literature' on various topics, believe it or not, all literature starts with someone who can 'think relatively soundly about the world' and yet nevertheless sometimes facts take you into surprising places that are not immediately intuitively obvious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Put another way: If something is a significant academic field then it likely isn't something you can completely reproduce by intuition.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

glasses-off Clean mental slate

glasses-on blob-no-thoughts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Along with willful ignorance shall come willful illiteracy and willful resistance to critically thinking about things. People will just refuse to think altogether and soon nobody will have thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Will Wrasslin