The problem it that people don’t acknowledge their ignorance not because they didn’t realized it was an option, but because they think they know everything. And if you acknowledge your own ognorace in front of them, they take it to mean that they are superior and will mansplain everything
Once I said I do not know how cancer forms, my boss went off to tell me how it was because of the lack of oxygen so the mask we wore for covid was causing us all cancer. Fucking clown
I said “if that were true then scubba divers would have the highest rate of cancer ever” and he failed to understand my point. Only then I realized that I was talking with someone unwilling to listen
For those clowns I used to ask, “How the hell doctor’s and nurses still alive?! And if a mask makes no difference in germ transference why have medical professionals worn them for a century?!”
I think that’s sometimes true, but mostly there’s just a lot of vibes based people going around. Proof won’t change their minds, pointing out contradictions won’t change their mind, they just feel a way about an idea
And those people are almost the opposite - they’re often not confident in their own judgement. They fall back to the default human behavior - to take a position relative what they perceive to be the group consensus
The problem it that people don’t acknowledge their ignorance not because they didn’t realized it was an option, but because they think they know everything. And if you acknowledge your own ognorace in front of them, they take it to mean that they are superior and will mansplain everything
Once I said I do not know how cancer forms, my boss went off to tell me how it was because of the lack of oxygen so the mask we wore for covid was causing us all cancer. Fucking clown
That’s when I nod and fade away.
I said “if that were true then scubba divers would have the highest rate of cancer ever” and he failed to understand my point. Only then I realized that I was talking with someone unwilling to listen
For those clowns I used to ask, “How the hell doctor’s and nurses still alive?! And if a mask makes no difference in germ transference why have medical professionals worn them for a century?!”
I think that’s sometimes true, but mostly there’s just a lot of vibes based people going around. Proof won’t change their minds, pointing out contradictions won’t change their mind, they just feel a way about an idea
And those people are almost the opposite - they’re often not confident in their own judgement. They fall back to the default human behavior - to take a position relative what they perceive to be the group consensus