Idiots And Cultists Exist. Currently, They're Concentrated Among American "Conservatives"
A confession...
I am starting to "write off" stupid people as incorrigible.
Arguing with "the functionally decerebrate" is still marginally useful, but not because stupid people will "see the light."
Rather, argument is useful because "bystanders on the edge of the conversation" will learn something.
Thomas Paine was right: “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Yes, the Dunning-Kruger Hypothesis is "only" a hypothesis, but it is my "working hypothesis," and a quite good one I think.
In essence, Dunning and Kruger hold that "stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid."
I am starting to "write off" stupid people as incorrigible.
Arguing with "the functionally decerebrate" is still marginally useful, but not because stupid people will "see the light."
Rather, argument is useful because "bystanders on the edge of the conversation" will learn something.
Thomas Paine was right: “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Yes, the Dunning-Kruger Hypothesis is "only" a hypothesis, but it is my "working hypothesis," and a quite good one I think.
In essence, Dunning and Kruger hold that "stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid."
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Alan: Stupid people don't believe they are stupid.
And so, they believe that when they are accurately described, they're being vilified.
Mill's intent -- and my intent -- is not to vilify but to taxonomize.
Only when honest nomenclature is in place is progress possible.
Stupid people exist.
No one argues this.
It's just that stupid people can never conceive themselves as stupid.
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And so, they believe that when they are accurately described, they're being vilified.
Mill's intent -- and my intent -- is not to vilify but to taxonomize.
Only when honest nomenclature is in place is progress possible.
Stupid people exist.
No one argues this.
It's just that stupid people can never conceive themselves as stupid.
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