RE: Behind The Curve: Flat-Earth Conspiracy Documentary
Haha. I love how you try to do the "middle of the road" take but it fails spectacularly in this case.
Will you do the middle of the road take of the hollow earth "theory"?. How about Geocentrism? Turtle holding up the world "theory"? Hollow moon "theory"? (notice theory in "")
No. There is no middle of the road take here. One side is demonstrably wrong and the other isnt. There is no number of shady rich guys that can be pulled out of the ass by conspiracy theorists to justify questioning reality.. Treating this as "belief" is wrong as well.
These ideas should never be given the legitimacy of being taken seriously.
You can't trust ANYTHING!
Well this is completely false. You can indeed trust many things. In the matter of fact, you can trust most things.
Especially when we are talking major things the conspiracy theorists like to talk about.
Conclusion:
It doesnt mean youre stupid if you believe in conspiracy theories or that the earth is flat. It doesnt make you smart or smarter either.
Honestly, my experience with people who believe in outlandish conspiracy are actually "smarter" than average.
This is most definitely not my experience. What ive found is that theyre either dumber then average or slightly strange. Especially those over a certain age.
Tell me a conspiracy theory you believe in.
No matter which one you choose there will be a large group of people looking to call you "demonstrably wrong" and a fool for believing such a thing.
I've made it quite clear that the attitude against outlandish conspiracy theory is far worse than the faith in the conspiracy to begin with.
People are surrounded on all side by deception. It makes sense that they would lash out and start guessing wildly as to what they were being lied to about.
Better that people believe something incorrect than blindly trust authority.
Have you seen The Matrix? Your entire life experience is based on electrical activity in the brain. People are ants; they don't know anything. We just run around building things and our economy creates emergent properties that we don't even understand. Ants.
I dont believe in any conspiracy theories. Only things i believe in are those that can proven to a high degree. Theres things you prove with evidence and facts and then there are silly claims based on flawed thinking.
People lash out and make silly claims. Why give that kind of thinking legitimacy?
Youre surrounded by deception. Sure. But theres a difference between saying someone might have tampered with votes in the, i dunno, parliamentary elections and that earth is a pancake.
What? The authority on shape of celestial bodies is astrophysics. So are you saying that its better to believe the earth is a pancake then to trust what your astrophysics professor says?
No and no again.
The best course of action is to understand the science. Slightly inferior, but still highly correct course is to trust those educated and valued by their peers in the particular field of science.
Believing something incorrect doesnt even register on the scale of good ideas.
Really? A cave man that learned how to make fire already "knew" something. We are far beyond that. According to some estimates science understands 4% of the universe. Thats just a estimate, but the fact is that we know much more then a ant.
Im not sure why, maybe because Steemit has a strong tin-foil hat wearing community (few days ago i ran into someone shilling Orgone energy here out of all things) but you seem to try and lift up nonsense a bit and give it legitimacy.. And you dont seem (from reading your posts) as someone that will subscribe to crackpot science and outlandish theories.