How Conspiracies Changed (Flat Earth, Anti-Vaxxers) - Wisecrack Edition
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"Arguments are something to be WON, instead of to seek the truth." That's it, that's everything wrong with society.
Basically what it's like in a court room, it doesn't matter who did the right the thing or the wrong thing, its about making sure you win the argument.
Paradoxical John The very basis of Philosophy is to present ideas in the form of arguments to either strengthen or weaken a previous idea to see which one is more true (or atleast more useful, like round earth mathematics for gps rather than using a flat earther’s version of it), if the goal of an argument is to win it, rather than find an idea that people can agree on, then the whole point of arguing becomes moot. Arguments are not meant to be competitions used to stroke one’s own ego when the other person can’t or chooses not to respond.
@@paradoxalJohn Sure, it's hyperbole, but it's still fairly undeniable that it's caused massive damage in the fields of politics, philosophy, and economics. And at least 2 of those have important impacts on the world.
Look into Flat Earth:
ua-cam.com/video/x0EGB_o9TZM/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/0NM5q22j5VI/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/nyDey7QSgg4/v-deo.html
The Flat Earth Society is Controlled Opposition: ua-cam.com/video/tQ1l99KO6-0/v-deo.html
"behind the curve" is a Mockumentary making fun of flat earth, featuring fake flat earthers giving false flat earth arguments, so that people marginalize, ridicule, and write off flat earth as a "crazy conspiracy theory" while beLIEving in scientific theories and experiments that you can't test, repeat on your own, or prove in anyway: ifers.123.st/t298-behind-the-curve-controlled-opposition-documentary
Also, just too many people
Bojack Horseman-“You want to know what the problem is with everybody? They all just want to hear what they already believe.”
Like the dumbasses who watched this vid. God forbid they actually research beyond the government propaganda.
Flat Earthers: "Only believe what your own eyes are telling you."
Atom: Am I a joke to you?
Where is the curvature?
All atoms are...are smaller than dust in the wind...
@@eddiethailand Look and you will find, where is the flatness?
@@eddiethailand all around you
lmao
The quote: "the gamification of Truth is particularly worrisome." is a severe Understatement.
Only in the same way that is post is under appreciated ;)
How to spot a deceiver..... they put rainbow colors in the background of video, where a joker shirt with 1600 Trust no man, but trust God whom CANNOT lie. click my name to watch Son of Perdition part 4 or watch the whole series.
@@TheWormzerjr
Since you are proclaiming your faith on an open forum, I feel this is warranted:
1 free will is a mystical force that cannot be in any way justified except to perpetuate the justification of "deserving hell". As much as this may have been good for driving the worst of humanity to be better for thousands of years, fact is - god lied to ensure that we are better people.
2 your lack of critical thinking makes me sad. You are not trusting "a person" but the documented unique accounts of generations of people.
Nobody ever brings it up but after the moon landing the US sent th USSR a sample of the moon and the USSR confirmed that the US had landed on the moon
Conspiracy theorists would say that USSR willingly accepted their "defeat" as a means to end the space race, it cost them too much.
fake news
How would they even be able to confirm that the sample was even from the moon if they never went there themselves??? The USSR was obviously in on the conspiracy the entire time. The Space Race and the Cold War was an entire fabrication unto itself in order to hide an even bigger scheme. I'm not saying that it was aliens.... but it was aliens.
@@b.sharp. I can't tell if you're joking or not.
@@ManaMastery Yes you can.
Wisecrack: "Flat Earthers will be having their own cruise in 2020"
COVID: I'll not stand for this.
Hope they go to Brazil and see the Southern Cross instead of the North Star.
Covid-19 is released by the govt. to stop us flat earthers from proving we are right.
Won't they end up making that claim😅
It just became an anti-vaxxer cruise instead
Technically, they weren't wrong. I mean, who goes on a cruise during a pandemic?
@@avamasquerade Not to mention who allows them? Cruise lines must be struggling even worse than we thought....
The only reason autism is increasing is because the definition keeps changing, when I was 6 I had ADD, when I was 16 I had Aspergers, now I have autism
When were you born?
Steven Bills January 93
@@sparkydoodle696 here's a history of autism research that may explain why.
1994: Asperger's Syndrome is added to the DSM, expanding the autism spectrum to include milder cases in which individuals tend to be more highly functioning.
2009: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 110 children have autism spectrum disorders, up from 1 in 150 in 2007, though the CDC notes that the increase stems at least in part from improved screening and diagnostic techniques.
2013: The DSM-5 folds all subcategories of the condition into one umbrella diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Asperger's Syndrome is no longer considered a separate condition. ASD is defined by two categories: 1) Impaired social communication and/or interaction. 2) Restricted and/or repetitive behaviors.
Steven Bills NEEEEEEERRD! But seriously, the point I was trying to make is just that the definition is more liberal than it was years ago
Aspergers is a type of Autism. Like swine flu and bird flu are strains of influenza virus. ADD symptom of autism. Like how sweating and coughing are symptoms of influenza. No definitions are changed.
*1920s:* In the future, aliens shall become our greatest allies on Earth...
*Future:* Antartica goes to Logan Paul's brain to prove human brain's are flat.
Lol, nice try sheep. The fact that human head can only comprehend 24fps of information proved that this Logan Paul entity is just a social construct.
Hey! Logan’s brain is not flat, just perfectly smooth.
Mr. Friendship Man is he saying Pizza Gate? Is that a new Restaurant? What In The Hot Hell PizzaGate? Lmao. Please tell me I’m jUst hearing my man there wrong?
@@dustyalbones-reendust4385 I mean, I refer "flat human brains" as "stupidity". You just missed the point.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 done did 1920's people think dat?😶
Flat earthers: lets have a cruise
Covid-19: I’m bouta ruin this whole mans career
About 15 years ago, Stephen Colbert dropped the idea of "truthiness", which is really in the same vein of this whole premise.
I literally have no idea what flat eathers end goal is. It's like a conspiracy for conspiracy's sake
It's a plot by the CIA to mislead the masses and discredit dissenters.
@@kingmantheman Maybe, but if you want to discredit the CIA, MKUltra is a more reputable matter to brought up.
Their goal is to prove that their model of reality correct. It is a more comforting idea that the earth is the center of the universe than it is for it to be a part of one solar system out of an uncountable number of other star systems within an uncountable number of galaxies.
@bcd7977 might as well observe a drying paint, then.
@@ridhosamudro2199 You got it backwards it is to discredit 911 truthers,false flag flaggers etc. Its easy enough all you have to do is keep flat-earthing cozied up to the subjects that are of a real concern.
"Religious wars" are rarely ever about religion. The religious issues are a veneer over the underlying political questions.
Nnnnnot really. A lot of "political questions" and issues today are actually about people's underlying religious beliefs - the acceptance of LGBTQ+ people or abortion for example. These are issues that sprout almost entirely because some people won't let go of their precious beliefs. It wasn't different in the past.
Yes and no we of course know that religion is a bullshit cover for an individual agenda but it wouldn't be nearly as bad a problem if everyone believed that the reason it's such a potent tool is because many people really believe their actions are in the name of their religion
Bollocks.
@Usman Usmanovic Quite, on one or both sides.
Imbecilic bleatings of the historically ignorant. Y'all are great advertisements for education reform.
Flat Earthers: "Only believe what your own eyes are telling you."
Me: "Well, then, read some goddamned scientific papers with YOUR OWN EYES."
Or go to see magicians! Thay can make disapear things! you can see it WITH YOUR OWN EYES! xD
@Claudia Juarez If it's written in a book and it has been peer reviewed multiple times then it has good chances to be true and is always open to debate with valid arguments. Nothing is absolute in science. That's the biggest fallacy that groups like flat-earthers fall into.
@Star Trek Theory You are heavily messing things. Peer review in science comes AFTER experimentation and proof discovery. To publish something you have first to answer how, why, when and then let others review your discovery.
Topics like black holes are THEORIES. Theories in science serve this very purpose. When you cannot prove something in practice, you write your speculation and start discussing it with your peers. It still remains speculation though.
People like you are part of the problem. You have the illusion that you know how things work when in fact you have complete ignorance of the situation.
Why cant you**
@Star Trek Theory no one claims string theory to be true. It's a series of mathematical models that help further a search for testable truths. Papers on theoretical physics are published and peer reviewed by mathematicians using mathematical rigour.
THEORIES are PROVED. Theories are the most RIGOROUSLY LOGICALLY RATIONALLY PROVED ideas to explain a large variety of phenomena & making testable quantifiable predictions. UNPROVED or UNTESTED ideas are called HYPOTHESES.
Call them CONSPIRACY HYPOTHESES!
this only applies to *scientific* theories.
(also: name checks out lol)
Theories ARE NOT PROVEN. Your entire argument is a fallacy. If it was proven it would be called a fact. Stop giving out your opinion and never try and educate anyone because obviously you’re not even educated
"Peer review is the backbone of great science."
- Doctor Otto Octavius, 2018.
Star Trek Theory obvious bait is obvious
Is that even an actual quote from him?
Especially if the peers agree with you and promote your interests.
_It's funny because molluscs don't have backbones!_
So who peer reviews NASA?
All of these Theories are easy to explain.
Aliens...
When I read aliens I imagined the hands from the memes.
IT ALWAYS COMES BACK TO ALIENS.
There's some sort of wall joke here I think.
Your thoughts intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
and Aliens are easy to explain.
Humans...
Real quote from a Flat Earther: "I investigate through UA-cam for over 4 years now, so you can kinda call me an expert."
lol
Destiny argued with a guy who asserted that he had watched "a lot of youtube videos" of violence at BLM rallies, so he had the data to claim that BLM was intrinsically a violent organization.
@@summpwner7837 "he had the data..." NICE...
sigh
lmao
Yesterday: knowledge is power
Today: sanity is for the weak!!
Don't teach people what to think. Teach people how to think.
The problem is that there is too much knowledge out there for that to work. You cannot possibly derive what you need to know to function in a contemporary society from first principles or direct observation. You must rely on facts that you learned from others that you believe merely because they were told to you that you are unable to evaluate.
@James Endicott I disagree. The whole point of a larger society is that they are able to specialise and form opinions based on facts. Saying 'there is too much info' is just saying 'be lazy and don't bother with research' which is the start of the whole damn problem in the first place.
observable reality, is not thinking... Earth is no spinning ball, by any means what so ever in reality.
@@o76923 complete nonsense. ask for evidence and form your own opinion, dont just believe what other people say at face value, no one expects you to know everything, but of the things that you base your decisions on, yea just check the data.
@@lifeyoushouldtryit, that's a profoundly arrogant idea. The fact that you believe that you can meaningfully evaluate data in every field relevant to your life is purely the Dunning-Krueger effect.
Yessss! philospher with an actual answer for once! love the idea of emphasizing slowness, patience, and listening. Gives me alot of hope. big uppps to William Davies
Well sometimes there isnt always an answer
You all saw it, Jared confirmed that Wisecrack is Illuminati.
No I didn't
How do I join? Are they hiring?
How about a philosophy of wise crack? I'm sure it's been suggested before but I'd love to hear what you guys believe in and what you strive for in detail
Whoa that's meta
@farenheit041 morbid curiosity, be interesting to see what drives the channel
@@SkywardSpork What drives the channel is new world order propaganda, this is what drives every channel on youtube.
Trust is essential; even the most ardent conspiracy theorists need to trust their own senses, instincts, and thought processes to some degree. The important question to ask is who/what you trust and why.
Believing that you and you alone are the ultimate arbiter of ultimate truth frankly smacks of narcissism.
@Bryce Yup, someone you trust can completely destroy your sense of reality and construct a new one through manipulation. That's one of the reasons why trusting anyone or anything (including yourself) implicitly isn't generally a good idea.
The philosophy of "only believe what your own eyes tell you" referred to in the video is definitely part of Solipsism, which implies complete trust in your own perception. If you've met conspiracy theorists that don't subscribe to that philosophy then they could still be placing their trust in the wrong places. If they're open-minded and sagacious enough they'll figure that out eventually.
I acknowledge there are almost certainly "more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," so I ask myself who/what I trust and why constantly, always stoking an ember of doubt in everything I hold to be true to see if it burns down. If I could put fine print in everything I say and write, it would read "I could be wrong."
QUESTION I dare you🌋🌋🌋 somebody's lying HOW ANYONE GET TO THE MOON
The Moon is an average of 238,855 miles away from Earth
my source spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/en/
Technically, objects in low-Earth orbit are at an altitude of between 160 to 2,000 km (99 to 1200 mi) above the Earth’s surface.
My source www.universetoday.com/85322/what-is-low-earth-orbit/
More sources FACTS
ua-cam.com/video/Hs3FCl-ONJE/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/tawzPj9qntk/v-deo.html
The whole video
ua-cam.com/video/1cBrnIyeEwI/v-deo.html
I'm not going to be(lie)f the world is round just because a liar and murderer (christopher Columbus) says he's proven you won't fall off the map YOUVE NEVER BEEN HIGH ENOUGH TO TAKE A PICTURE IT'S ALL THEORY
PROVE THOU SELF
"A picture says a thousand words" said Mark S-but pictures of the planet just whisper softly ,"I'm a globe I'm a globe"
bUT clEARlY NASA phOtOshOPped tHE pICs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OPeN yoUR EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry if reading that gives you a headache lol
"A picture says a thousand words... Except the thousand pictures proving me wrong obviously"
@@gingergamergirl98 is ok
@Urban Criters WHY TF WOULD THEY DO IT
like they would gain nothing from that
Urban Critter “what kind of channel is this attacking other people’s beliefs“
Well, when those beliefs are obviously fucking stupid, and based on zero factual information, they deserve to be attacked. Maybe they wouldn’t be attacked if they could stop being fucking stupid for just one second.
This channel is so ridiculously good. The ideas are articulated so well. You guys always seem to decipher the chaos and make a very useful order out of it. Thank you!
@Rudiger Glique which is basically how smart your average flatearther is...
I love these, but I found funny the "Expertise is evaporating" . Wix sponsor time 10s later: "Doesn't matter what's your expertise".
I find this funny because I develope web applications. OMG Wix, you'll "push me out of my job" (unlikely) XD
@@Stettafire well if you want just some frontend page that advertises your business wix is ok (although pages with bootstrap design are more likely to come up on a google search) but if you want a fullstack website with a fully functional database then yeah, you'll need a dev team
it always baffels me how for example flat earthers doubt scientific facts because "they can´t see the curve" and other stuff, but most of them will happily belive in a fairitale book with no proove whatsoever.
Putting existence of God/s aside, pompous wanna be intellectuals using worlds like fairytale and invisible friend just to feed their ego are no better than people actually believe that Earth is flat.
I'd trust my fairytale that predicted what is happening today in our generation
Then trusting your logical science bullshit
Fkn idiot
Re-establish the teaching of the scientific method and critical thinking for all children. Institute basic philosophy classes to teach humans how to question their world, and implement a course for learning basic life skills that are required for our current society. Nothing beats ignorance and blind prejudice quite like knowledge and reason. Observation is the first step forward towards thoughtfulness, and conscientious thought brings us to a better society and personal life. But I'm just some crazy neck-beard in his 40's that has been battling mental illness all his life... what would I know? '\_('-')_/'
cavv0667 A-fucking men. Our public education system needs radical changes
Agreed. Things like basic finance would go so far in making functioning adults, but we need a work force that can think critically as all the dumb work is done by computers and robots. We are looking at a new Dark Ages if we don't adjust the education system.
@cavv0667 Becoming 41 in only two days from now and having the same challenge in my life and the same ideas as you just stated, I hereby would be honored to digitally) shake your hand. Sincerely, your brother from another mother (as we all are in the end).
Look into Flat Earth:
ua-cam.com/video/x0EGB_o9TZM/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/0NM5q22j5VI/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/nyDey7QSgg4/v-deo.html
The Flat Earth Society is Controlled Opposition: ua-cam.com/video/tQ1l99KO6-0/v-deo.html
"behind the curve" is a Mockumentary making fun of flat earth, featuring fake flat earthers giving false flat earth arguments, so that people marginalize, ridicule, and write off flat earth as a "crazy conspiracy theory" while beLIEving in scientific theories and experiments that you can't test, repeat on your own, or prove in anyway: ifers.123.st/t298-behind-the-curve-controlled-opposition-documentary
Wierd thing to add at the end there
lol..that one flat-brainer says he trusts his eyes over math. So..I guess he doesn't know how eyes work either.
Well spoken.
Anyone can become an "expert" today after watching 20 minutes of UA-cam.
more like spending 2 seconds reading a headline off something.
well yes, youtube was place of FREEDOM of INFORMATION.
but not anymore, truth is now being censored, flat earth and other truths
Flat Earth Reality Stop with the blatant bait my guy
Flat Earth Reality the real flat thing is your brain
Flat Earth Reality I explained the physics to two other people, they were reasonable and had hope, you can piss off.
I see only possibility for flat-earthers to prove anything: bring a group of "scepticists" to the edge of Earth))
Exactly! "Where's the edge, Lebowski? Where's the @&$!% edge, Lebowski?!"
Would be enough if they made a picture of Mount Everest - from the USA. Shouldn't be to hard on a flat earth.
Honestly. The best reply I ever heard was if the earth is flat cats wouldve pushed everything off by now
Or into space
@@unchosenzombie5144 I don't know what to say to you, I just hope you can regain your trust in society someday.
Dammit. Looks like the lizard people got ahold of wisecrack.
why do you say that
What? You didn't see him shapeshift mid-video? Let me slow it down frame by frame and reduce the video quality to that of a toaster so you can see the split-second lizard eye.
Nope, we are time travelling, human eating, shape shifting lizard gods.
Half of my family lives in USA.
Most of them started believing in conspiracy theories when they moved there.
America... Y U DO DIS?! -.-'
@Bryce
Well, I don't see half of America being detained. Alas, it is not my problem anymore. I will let America deal with Americans and their problems.
@Bryce yikes! Thought police much? 🤔
I think some people believe conspiracies because in their opinion they know the "truth", which gives them more value in society over the 99% that don't know or don't subscribe to that "truth".
Bones And Juice i doubt they’re looking for value in a world full of dumbass people if they’re apart of that 1%. i think most people just want to know the truth,
Philosophy/Analysis of avatar the last airbender?
The TV show not the movie. The movie is trash.
@@unwantedmacguffin5611 lol why the fuck would anyone talk about the movie besides criticizing it
@@unwantedmacguffin5611 They could do a What Went Wrong episode.
@@Andshrew94 Too many things went wrong that movie to even attempt an analysis of it.
Alfonso Payan
I’ve been asking for a Wisecrack to make a Philosophy analysis of Nickelodeon’s, Avatar: The Last Airbender for a long time and never have I gotten a single thumbs up for it.
Thumbs up for the nudge to PBS Spacetime! Matt O'dowd and the crew on that channel are amazing!
Also, great video haha
Wait, Jim Carrey is an antivaxxer?
Well that sucks.
He also trusts the mainstream media and thinks socialism is a good idea. He's lost the plot.
imo that post seemed more libertarian than anti vaxxer but in reality he's more of a troll than anything else.
Given how his mind works I'm not surprised.
what's an antivaxxer?
@@Valuemeal_papi Someone who is against vaccinations because they're bought into a lot of B.S.
Well, it seems that we need to add some new material to our school curricula, maybe media literacy, or things that focus on logic and critical thinking, perhaps even philosophy and ethics at younger ages.
universities and colleges have this, but schools do not. Way too much focus on finding the 'right answer' (even in English Lit where there isn't always a right answer) and not encough time encourging students to research and make coherent arguments backed by that research.
@@Stettafire I remember in the earlier years of school we'd be punished for being skeptical
I had Philosophy Class in Mid school, it was one of my favorites. Most kids hated this though. Honestly I think it was the single most important class and I learnt so many useful things there. Like argueing without creating anger via the socratic method. This was in Germany btw.
I really hope the "Game of Thruth" has a better ending than it's fantasy counterpart.
The Philosophy of Metalocalpyse would be quite insightful
despite being dump on the surface...I'd argue its actually quite deep
On behalf of all metalheads. Thank you.
@@nixadventures3938 Sure Metal may not seem like one of the Deepest Topics Philosophically at first glance, but it actually can be when delved into
Also Brandon Small is fabulous Show Writer and extremely talented
No spoilers?
The true shape of the Earth is the biggest spoiler in some people's lives
"True shape" is too ambiguous for my tastes in a comment section about flat earthers...
How can we build a society based on trust while still promoting healthy skepticism and criticism?
By providing a life of dignity to working class people.
No politician can be funded by corporations or lobbyist, all politicians must be funded by regular people. No person should have over 100 million dollars, anything over that amount is taxed 100%, no tax havens or loop holes. No private health insurance companies, the government provides health insuranance to all no premiums or deductibles funded through taxation, health care providers and pharmaceutical companies will negotiate pricing in regards to health care with the government. Everyone will have access to mental health professionals. All schools around the country will be funded equally, no longer will property taxes dictate how good of a school our kids go to. Worker protections will be strengthened and all workers will be unionized allowing workers a say in how they are treated in regards to pay, benefits, and working conditions. Landlords will not be allowed to have a monopoly on pricing of rent. We will incorporate more nature into our cities and we will create more community centers, trails, and parks. We will transfer from fossil fuel use to green energies.
7:56
Woah wait, I’m no flat-earther, but I hope you’re not implying mk-ultra didn’t actually happen.
Rothschild on there too... So they don't have absolutely insane amounts of wealth and you're a tin-foil hat wearer if you're suspicious of what just a few people could choose to do with that wealth? I'm not some big "conspiracy theorist", but something makes me uncomfortable about all this backlash against people who question just about anything major at this point. It's similar to people who insist that anyone who is not an engineer or demolition expert has no right to question what happened on 9/11. You don't always need a doctor to tell you you're bleeding.
@Captain Jack and many of them, combined too, have said it's fake.Brother,no matter what the other side says, they will not and cannot explain how bulding 7 randomly fell(even more perfectly down) too
@@quigglyjohnston6118 you don't have to be a structural engineer or demolition expert to have a say on 9/11 but you can't expect people to give a rando's opinion the same weight as an expert's
sskspartan - Building 7's collapse has been explained ad nausium. Probably to you personally, hundreds of times. You're no different then a flat earther claiming that no one's explained how determine if the earth's a sphere.
@Uluvu That's all well and good, but thats also not what I was arguing against. My argument was against giving two arguments the same weight when one is made by someone who has knowledge and training to back up their point and the other does not.
"How can we continue to build a society based on trust while still promoting healthy skeptcism and criticism?"
I think that is impossible. Everything you receive (News, info, commentary and etc) from others you only accept if you believe/trust in the people giving to you. For intance, if I see some News telling something absurd, I'll verify the source and believe in it or not, depending on the source. If I see it in a lot of diferente locations I'll believe it more, but not completely only because of that.
The problem in the question, I think, is in the idea of "trust". Trust is something very important, it isn't for nothing that without other people we perish. But the "trust" shown by the system is like "Trust in me because we [the system] care about you" but we know that it isn't the truth, because happened a lot in the past situations that they doesn't cared about us. Same thing in the relationships; "trust in me because I love you/I like you" but people forgets that love and care is developed by time, not only by one phrase.
If someone wants to exclude the trust in the process even though I have express my believe above that it is very important for human relationships, the only way to "still promotes healthy skeptcism and criticism" is not telling about something, but show it to the population. For exemple, instead of showing the picture of a black hole, put in there all the equations and theories that led to this picture. Need to explain why it won't work? For me and A LOT of others people won't understand ANYTHING of it because we aren't physicists.
Love your vídeos, Wisecrack! And sorry if there is so many mistakes. English isn't my first language :)
Those who are keen conspiracy theorists, will mostly not even test the conspiracy using methods completely in their control.
Flat earth is a prime example, the shape of the Earth is easily demonstrated yet a flat earther will deny or ignore the evidence.
Oh the "who dies of the flu" bit is PAINFUL hearing in a day of Covid-19.
The lack of trust in day to day arguments tend to always get railroaded by semantics.
In my personal experience, even basic definitions have stopped potentially decent, truth-seeking conversations. Not even for the "sake of argument" will folks take something at face value.
Whenever i go to a debate with my friends it seems like all they argue about are definitions and what something "really" means. It goes no where and feels like a huge waste of time.
You've said so eloquently something that has been on the backburner of my mind for a couple years but struggled to think about in a cohesive way. As a researcher, my role is to find the "truth" of the world as it pertains to my discipline. However, the outcomes of my experiments are inevitably interpreted through my and my colleagues' incomplete and inherently biased view of how the world works. After all, I am a limited human being and I was trained by another more experienced but still limited human being. As I acquire more experience myself, I am getting better at identifying my own biases and the biases of others, but I will in all likelihood retain some level of my biases; I doubt they will ever truly go away for anyone at the individual level. However, I do feel that, as a field as a whole, the "cream rises to the top". In other words, findings that cannot be replicated will not ultimately shape future thoughts of how the world works as much as more robust results which can be replicated. Theories will be disproved and other better ones will take their place. In the long run, things will work out. However, it remains to be seen whether we as a society can, or will, look that far down the road.
I'm not saying it's aliens... But it's aliens.
So what are you saying ???
@@seanbaugh3239 he's saying it's aliens. But HE'S not saying that.
@@kingmantheman
So what are you saying about what he's saying ???
I think Jared wearing a Joker 1600 shirt is a conspiracy.
Alan Watts - The Joker
Where can I find that Poop Sandwich book???
LOL!
Well, I'm thoroughly depressed now.
same
You know,
For a while I felt like I lived in some dystopian nightmare
Where, sort of, everything, and everyone, I cared about
Was reappropriated by some kind of wimp Stalinist, super-bougie, fake populist, two dates to the prom, snake oil salesman, prosumer, alternate reality. And it was using my life, and my people, and my love to convince the world about how real it was. Give it comfort that it’s having an authentic experience.
But it’s not “for real. It knows it’s not for real. That’s why it has time to tinker with it.
Like gremlins, they wish it actually was what they believe is some desirable or attainable representation of reality, so they just assemble it to appear to be. Like perverted workshop elves.
I probably do the same thing, but I’m not jazzed about it.
But, what I’m saying is, it’s not about material-material stuff, proving that car is real, or my hand is real. It’s taking abstract things, emotions, experiences, and throwing down some smoke bombs and a strobe light, and telling me they’re real or made, and owned by somebody, IE this guy, and Dr. Lifestyle-Coach-Party-Dad’s got my two tickets to paradise.
You know, you got pick from some “stupid list/endless feeling choice buffet” of what people can relate to, but the options have become more real than whatever’s going on with the person choosing them.
And I’m off menu. I can’t do anything about it. Do you know what I mean?
These choices are meaningless to me. It’s like, we have all the most yellow breads and cheeses for your soul’s vegetarian diet.
And, yeah, I know, it’s not a new idea or anything: commercials, advertisement. Blah blah. Kill your TV. Facebook. Obama.
But, do we really need to do this to EACH other now? Like existential entrepreneurial sociopaths? Have we ran out of so many worlds to conquer that now we just take turns brain-colonizing each other?
I mean, is there any other way, because I feel really gross about it?
You know, just anyway besides re-ordering a bunch of other people’s memories and then sending them back some VIP invitation to their own life?
Or just selling some new extra steps for validation by generating buyer’s remorse and then absolving it for dollars, and thenbeing a baby about it while getting paid.
Sounds kind of demoralizing, right. Might make it easy to buddy with the darkness if I was that demoralized. Might make it rational.
Pragmatic.
Responsible.
Gremlins, they hate when your kisses blow one at a time. You know, because they’ve “accepted” that you got to be like that. Think like that. Like it’s some kind of mature adult compromise, but I don’t know, that kind of vaudeville parlor trick is like they read the Wikipedia for The Prince and just grew their bangs out. Made the world their dad, and make a diamond waiting on their allowance. All pouty, punching the clock at the Realness Factory.
How come they don’t have that level of cynicism or blow my brains out at the dinner table-contrarian table talk for their own Keebler life-vomit.
Because they hate when kisses blow one at a time because it doesn’t say anything about a systemized world. It just says something about their life. About your life.
Who gets to decide the way the world works? Some idea? Or one at a time? Or some idea made by a few jerk-off’s one at a time?
These guys, they want to get paid to slip in their idea every time you could do your one at a time.
Imply you’re one at a time is meaningless because it’s one at a time, and then ask for a dollar, so you can feel good about the choice they took away from you because that’s just the way the world works because they’re your witness.
Yeah, you’re going to need a sweet release if you really believe that you’re just supposed to eat it. For breakfast. Everyday. That you can only choose between total anonymity and total witness.
Or, I don’t know, you could just love somebody. Or know somebody. Directly.
And push out all the little jaded teenage-grown up gremlins trying to cram their paycheck into all the social space that’s yet to be monetized into a theme park.
You know, and they can give me People Points every time they get another bit of my space, so I can get my mohawk pierced or whatever. Botox my dog.
But I’m not into the trade-off, it’s not a reward for me, and I worry I have to do it to be able to work.
Not in a “I don’t want to be an adult, I wish I could just escape it all and be a baby again” kind of way, but in a “am I going to have to act like this to another person to be able to survive” kind of way.
Because if I do, I’m just doing time on another planet. A teenage planet.
And that planet’s got to decide to grow up again, or it’s just going to end up hiring some really crazy Skynet meets Mussolini father figure with no body hair.
Like:
“I can wear whatever I want but I got tazed and lobotomized for walking too fast at the people store. And now I have to fire the t shirt cannon at the book burning inside my 1000 year mind-prison or the banks going to take my baby’s avatar.”
And yeah, I would be a gloomy, everything’s kind of B.S. , so whatever I’m just making it, elitist underdog, grown-up teenager too if I believed any of that stuff. But I don’t.
I don’t believe any of that stuff. I’m not convicted about it you know.
I don’t see why that’s any more rational than saying I want to be a human.
A variable. A human variable. On a teenage planet.
Really, I just don’t want to be some nostalgia raffling stooge for the googlable authoritarian capitalist nightmare future that might not happen, but, you know, maybe I am
Maybe we all are.
I don’t know, am I trying to sell you something right now?
I don’t even know anymore, but I’m going to keep trying to figure it out.
jack Lennon tldr
I have one question, how in the world did you write all that in a small amount of time
U make hell of sense. ppl are gonna be full of shit but it all comes down to us to decide not someone else
*Hey Matthew McConaughey !!! Pipe down and pass the blunt already !!!*
*"NUFF SAID"*
@@midolamani4536 funky magus
This is a really fascinating video and the ways of solving this are rather unique. I think the real issue we have right now, which I feel most might disagree with, is anonymity. We don’t know who is disagreeing with us, their merits, whether or not they are a bot, a troll, a paid shill, etc.
From your video, it seems like transparency was what began trust. Right now it seems like society has this desire for a shadow internet self and then their real life self. We don’t know if likes, upvotes, and other ways of gaining the spotlight are being artificially increased or not.
It seems like in a day an age where clickbait is king, agenda pushing is seeping into all aspects of media and entertainment, truth is becoming more and more difficult to uncover. Marketing has taken over for truth. Being visible is more important than being right. Previous places for objective truth now have agendas of their own. And ironically, what I see as the next generation of experts has been UA-camrs like Wisecrack. UA-camrs are starting to fulfill this role because we trust independent creators more so than big groups. Thanks for the video, really gets you thinking.
The real question is....
DID JARED HAVE HIS HAIR CUT? OR IT SHRANK DOWN?????
His "hair" is actually an alien that is controlling him.
It was the chemtrails!
Another good book about this "Anti-intellectualism in America" a professor recommended it to me during my uni days in the mid to late 1990s.
I still, to this day, get a kick out of that Flat Earther that calmly posted on Twitter : "We, Flat Earthers, have members all across the globe" And someone replied : "Read your own tweet very, very slowly"
My personally comeback to them is usually : "If the Earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything of off it already"
Last time I came this early I was still welcome at the library.
hahahaha-ha. it finally happened.
Q: How do experts build trust?
A: Stick to the basics. That is stick to what you know and don't try to claim to be an expert on something your not. This may relate to content, craft, or just what one would believe, but understand that people will want to hear lies over truth.
Knowlege is power, not money. What is happening now is that people are trying to make money by exploting their knowlege, and more times then not failing hard. Honnestly it is just as simple as being a good person.
The natural crisis of capitalism, eroding confidence and trust in our experts...
@@gabriel300010 Yes I will give you that, but trust works in both directions.
#capitalismforever!
The problem with this video is a lot of the stuff has come out as true over time, which only reinforces people's doubts.
People believing the earth is flat isn’t too harmful...what worries me is the amount of people that don’t believe in global warming...
Like what if they’re wrong? What if the damage becomes irreversible and bye bye age of humanity?
I Believe that giving enough time, all of those will have terrible effects. I dunno... some idiots could start to sabotage antenas or whatever for exemple. Oh take a look at this: there are flat-earther within my country's gov and they are considering drop the investiments in global warming research and spend tax money in research for Earth's real form. Idiocy always has its trail of damage
euphoryuh What if you're wrong, and the buildup of every paper that anybody throws away leads to the planet blowing up in a fiery explosion due to the paper burning in an unavoidable fire?
Because that argument is just as intellectually dishonest and detatched from sound scientific fact as the global warming argument is.
My stance is that there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
The only way you're going to change MY MIND is if you brought up sound, provable, scientific evidence instead of some mob mentality, "the world is going to end," derangement.
When you're woke, its these channels with millions of followers that you should never take seriously. Tool boats reiterating/reinforcing what people want to hear.
*"The I.M.A. (Indian Medical Association) has a figure of 85,000 vaccine-attributed polio victims - up to 2005... Doctors have been advised to keep quiet on these issues for the 'greater good' of humanity. It is sad that no effort is being made to track, treat and compensate the unfortunate children. GAVI, UNICEF, Rotary and WHO do not reply to our emails making it plainly evident they aren't the least bothered about the health of Indian children. Shame on those who wish to profit by killing and maiming little babies." - Dr. Omesh Bharati **_Politics of Vaccination II_*
talks about the death of expertise and why that matters, then immediately goes to ad mode talking about how it doesnt matter to be an expert on web design
I believe it's completely different. You don't have to be expert on web design to be a proficient practicioner using a tool created by experts. If you'd like to make more complex adjustments on a given web page you will have to become "more like an expert" or ask an expert for his advice. In the end it still matters. Now let's imagine an expert web designer tell you how to do/fix something in your web page but you distrust her opinion and go a completely different way. I think that'll be closer to the problem he's presenting with conspiracy theorists :)
a "market place " of ideas is just gonna give you what you get in any market place.
The most popular ideas will be the ones that sell the most.
so the things most true will be the need behind the purchase consistent with all the people who bought this popular idea.
In such an environment the most palatable sexy ideas end up being the ones held as "true"
If we want a discourse in truth, we have to do something with this need we all seem to have to sell each other on something. the link information sharing with profit also goes here.
I remember back in the 90s, almost everyone never questioned an "Expect". it became a problem for me, when i did my own study of the subject and suggested the expects might not know everything, everyone flipped out. it was then that i realized how much the term expect had control over public opinion. People didn't look into the subject themselves, they just repeated information that they heard, arguments turned into echo chambers of of what someone heard and not studied or researched themselves. Second was me coming to the realization that not all expects are unbiased. Nowadays, i'll hear anyone out and take notes, then cross-examine them and they're findings. if everything lines up, i'll then categorize it as Fact or personal option in levels ranging from amateur to expert option.
I don't know how but somehow this is Alan Moore's fault.
Conspiracy is term coined by the c.I.a prove me am wrong please
They can't prove you wrong... but the CIA is just a front for deeper intelligence organizations
Something I really dislike about today's conspiracies is that they call for distrust to experts, but that brings, wether they mean to or not, to distrust one another.
It's less "I don't believe the Earth is flat" and more "I don't believe YOU that the Earth is flat".
Do research. That helps a lot.
Also interesting: how proven experts get slammed for being experts, and people following a hermit-like YTuber for “saying the truth, unlike those experts”.
@Captain Jack Ok, yes, anyone can do research and source information. But there are differences between experts in a field and an average untrained individual, pros and cons. Everybody tends to suffer from a bias, we all have our own bias ways of thinking and it tends to lead us, in many cases without us even being aware. It's a flaw of man and if you think you don't have a bias...you'd most likely be wrong, it's pretty much unanimous. So an individual (experts or otherwise) can and do have a tendency to follow their bias, which can and does lead them to often follow a lot of misinformation in favor of that bias, especially if they have no prior training into the scientific method, or the methods of proper data and information collection...this is how experts differ. At least experts are trained in these methods, methods that are proven useful and that produce objective results. Experts actively practice these methods, making them far more proficient at these tasks in most cases as well. It's not that the average individual can't also learn these things, of course they can...but do they? I've talked to many conspiracy minded people now...some of them don't even trust or follow the METHODS of science, let alone the institutions of science...which just boggles me. The number of them I've talked to that think advanced Mathematics and equations aren't useful...is very troubling to me as well. At least with an accredited expert, you can be sure that they had to at the very least go through these basic methods of proper research and that they understand how and why they're useful.
Another thing going for experts, they are also required to submit their work through systems of peer review, before anything they say or claim is published. It's not a perfect system, but at least there IS a system of checks and balances in place to HELP make sure the information and data is good. So there are pros and cons to each...I feel experts have more pros than cons.
There is no such peer review system for the conspiracy content creators on UA-cam, so they're free to say whatever they want unchecked and unchallenged if they so choose. This gives them freedoms that don't hold them back sure...but it also means they can make empty claim after empty claim, with no body to check them on any of it, causing them to eventually fall into the very traps the peer review system was designed to weed out. Bias thinking, poor lazy research, ego/emotionally driven subjective reasoning, bad experimentation, errors in data collection/math and most of all straight up lies...these are flaws that man has and tends to make, so I feel scientists were very wise to put some kind of system in place to filter out these problematic tendencies of man...and it's worked so far. Sure it can be exploited even corrupted, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea by default...it just means the individual should still be cautious either way and never take any information at face value...but again, at least experts HAVE a system in place that keeps them in check! At least experts ARE trained in methods that are proven to work and they practice and apply it in everything they do.
Worst yet, from what I've seen having spent a great deal of time on conspiracy channels myself, their flock of followers generally eat up every word they say without question...most of the comments in raving support and applause, even though I spot glaring issues and holes in pretty much every conspiracy video I've taken the time to watch so far. Then anyone questioning them is shot down or blocked immediately, to keep the echo chamber of information running smoothly. So I'm not sure what the larger problem is with these 'hermits' on UA-cam, the fact that there is no peer review system to check their claims, or that the majority of their followers don't question anything they say. I'm all for freedom of speech, information and expression, so it's a slippery slope when we start trying to regulate what people can do and say on these platforms (thought we already do a little with things like hate speech, so it is necessary sometimes)...but it seems that very few people who listen and subscribe to these channels, do much of anything to actually question what the content creators are saying, nor do they seem to bother putting their claims to the test in any manner. For the most part, of course that's not every case...but this is not good in my opinion. People should question everything and never take information at face value, even from the sources they trust...which also includes experts, so in that we agree.
They call the rest of us sheep...when the truth is, they're still very much sheep, they just changed shepherds is all. In fact the whole "sheeple" or "indoctrinated zombie" thing, is more just childish name calling, a coping mechanism for people who want to feel superior or special over others...but not much more. It doesn't do anything but furthers the divide between people...we're all fucking sheep, I think people should accept that. You are not a wolf, neither am I, not even a black sheep...because everyone is aware that authority can't be trusted, it's nothing new, never has been. We've never trusted authority...but it ebs and flows, and right now, it's flowing. Maybe a few people think they see the fences...but do they really?
I just fear there is now a lot of misinformation being spread around due to these 'hermits' on UA-cam, misinformation that is now making larger numbers of people more paranoid then anything else...which is not a good thing, that's how mob mentality grows, when paranoia and fear rob us of our better reasoning...it turns us against each other, makes us into monsters. Isn't that usually the main power play of these "elites" by the way? Divide and conquer? Seems to be working...
Can you please cover the Leftovers this show has so many themes and symbolism.
One of the best shows of this decade that nobody saw. Still a toss up for me between that and Twin Peaks.
It boggles the mind that now, in the 21st century, that there can be people who seriously think the Earth is flat. There were ancient cultures who figure this out centuries ago.
Good video but that pizza gate story not as wack as it’s been labeled.
I honestly think some conspiracies are true
Me: Are you gonna get the corona vaccine when its developed?
Dad: Don't you know about vaccines causing autism in children?
Me: Are you a child?
Dad:
@Fortunate One ok bot
@Fortunate One b o t
I don't believe in flat earth, but wisecrack either intentionally misrepresents them or has not done their research......CONSPIRACY!?!
You guys should do philosophy of The Maxx!
Joshua Morelion yaaaaasssss
@illyounotme yes! Then we must join forces and have everyone see The Maxx!
Despite this obvious hit piece on free thinkers, these days the difference between a conspiracy theory and proven fact, is about 6 months.
Flat Earth has sailed past that supposed time frame.
They've been both unable to prove anything and have been mocked about it for years.
@@gmr4life884 only by spherical Earth believers who have never done any research themselves.
@@redoz9768
Funny of you to assume anything about what I have or have not studied.
Also hilarious of you to say "believer" as though knowing we are just a regular planet is somehow akin to a cult like FE.
The disconnect from reality with you guys is astounding.
The globe is dead, Long Live Flat Earth
Fuck flat earth. Hollow Earth is the real deal.
Lies. Glory to Cube Earth!
The globe on your shoulders is dead....what you get paid an hour to troll forums posting crap you dont even believe is true? Or are you just an ISraeli created bot?
@@numb3r663 Flat earthers are government trolls paid to make conspiracy theorist look stupid.
In my freshman composition class research essays using conspiracy theroeies and why we believe them. I use this as a conversation about how to find reliable and relevant sources for a paper.
We are in the process of entering the post truth society because of information overload. We are not post truth yet, because a majority of people hold trust in the institutions, but this trust is ever more eroding for more and more institutions the more the people is "informed". Most people when overloaded with information become uncertain as they can't tell what is truth and lie and this is all it takes to undermine truth and facts. I'm fairly intelligent (not to brag just as an example) and have spent a majority of my life on the internet surfing the waves of never ending information being beamed into my face through the screen. I've been lucky enough to have had the right interests and education to construct a basic understanding of the world which I have built upon browsing the internet. Sometimes even I get overwhelmed and can't tell truth from lies and I can't imagine what it's like for most people who haven't invested as much time into understanding how everything in the world works and learning how to investigate and figure out what is true and not. Climate change is an example where the denier or skeptic side get ever better at coming up with arguments to confuse and erode your confidence in what is true. Often with an overload of information that questions everything and makes it hard to show anything is true. Every time you prove something they find a way to question it and make you uncertain, which require hours and days of research to explain to your self at least why what you said is true and their argument is wrong. I fear that with the digital age that involves ever more things, our world will grow to become so complicated we will lose more and more people to uncertainty, disbelief and distrust. It will probably take a generation or more, but we are definitively in the process of entering a post truth society where fewer and fewer people can tell the truth from lies. You'll have fewer and fewer smart people duking it out for truth and against it, until only artificial intelligence is capable of continuing the battle. At that point us humans will be helpless trying to chose between god and the devil of our own making and we won't be able to tell who's who! How can we trust that the one we picked to side with is not the bad one? They will both look the same and both will be accusing each other of being evil!
Do a video on Game Of Thrones : What went wrong?
The writer stopped producing source material.
D&D got lazy
@@Noah-fn5jq providing*
I think we all have a handle on that..
Nothing went wrong
And how about you show how pizza gate iself was pulled out of thin air rather than staw-maning it by conflating it with Flat Earth.
>thin air
I think you meant Podesta's emails.
@@PDubbler and that woman's website.
@@raw5889 What website was that?
ua-cam.com/video/-GZFHLAcG8A/v-deo.html
lol - pizzagate is as fake the earth being flat. It's origins are easily found via google.
Another huge problem is we can't accept that smart people can get things wrong.
Hell, we can't accept that people make mistakes at all. If you make one mistake, however small, we can't trust you anymore.
We can't accept the idea that maybe we believed in something erroneous for a lot of our life.
Wow, the very idea that people would question their government! Especially when their government, through declassification and FOI, has been shown time and again that they are complicit of and in conspiracies.
You can't lump all of these conspiracies together and just dismiss them. That is disingenuous.
There was a general feel of dis to your piece towards folk who would dare doubt the official line.
@illyounotme Nearly all scientific studies have publicly available abstracts or summaries.
This video was about how conspiracy theories are moving away from a distrust of government towards a distrust of _everyone_ (often to the benefit of those in power), and discussed the virtues of suspicion towards authorities. Watch the damn video before spewing your canned responses all over it.
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no right there man. You've proven his point. He took a very moderate stance and made a decent point which was built on by the next guy.
But *you* took that point, and showed your incredible hatred of "all conspiracy theories" and lumped them all together. Completely ignoring the fact that both of the previous people were clearly against anti vaxx and flat earth
But you had such a knee jerk reaction, you decided thats who they were. You behaved *exactly* like an anti vaxxer would have in an argument. You just waited for your counterpart to finish, so you could shout them down.
Gov't around the world have absolutely lied and admitted that certain conspiracy theories in the past, actually happened.
The gulf of tonkin, without which we never would have been involved in Vietnam and lost so many lives, was faked. And declassified docs admit to that.
Others admit to poisoning alcohol during prohibition. Resulting in the deaths of 20k Americans.
As for 9/11 people, look up operation northwoods. Its a decent amount of fuel for that movement of people.
It is not "damaging to society" to ask questions and request investigations and reforms into possibly dangerous things. Its damaging to *not* do that. If you obey and do all youre told without question, you'll be led off the cliffs with the rest of the lemmings. strict obedience to authority, is simply unamerican.
The obvious answer to your question at the end is to end capitalism and get to work instituting full global communism of the fully automated luxury variety.
IN SPACE!
Our society seems trapped by an anxiety about uncertainty. Rather than trying to double down on a worldview that cultivates absolute certainty (cults and conspiracy mindsets), we should become acclimated to uncertainty, to accepting things tentatively, to be willing to change conclusions based on new information
Is it Ironic that this video is a critique on a world rejecting expertise is sponsored by Wix removing the need for expert web designers?
WOW LOL GOOD CATCH.
You're the last good Jared on UA-cam. Please, stay scandal-free.
ProJared, Jared from Subway, who's next?
I am sure Jared is into some sick twisted shit in a pizza parlor basement but it is being covered up by his cabal of Deep State Illuminati Spherists.
oof....
They've changed because the term has become weaponized to completely dismiss a position without having to challenge the position by simply asserting it as some sort of crazy pathology. Simply put out a few insane ones, and then associate more grounded claims or concerns you want to have dismissed, and suddenly those grounded things are to illicit a negative reaction.
Kudos for using SpaceTime as an example of what UA-cam could be,
(Given you couldn’t point to yourselves, of course!)
The JFK subject is nothing like flat earth or moon landing theories... there are very legitimate questions about his assasination.
When you ask simple questions and the response you recieve is that of mockery and silencing instead of a simple answer, then you have the answer you need right there. Mockery is a sign of insecurity and weakness. Straightforward questions should be met with transparency and straightforward answers.
This is to demonstrate how they're gradually co-opting Jared.
Time for a joke.
What should all Flat Earthers and Anti-vaxxers be required to do?
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I remember when people thought that Barry Manilow had died in a car accident, but then he's still alive. They called it the "Manilow Effect". But now I think they call it the "Mandela Effect" for some reason. Weird.
This is great. Could you do a video on polling? Maybe cover things like why people put so much faith in them and instances of when they are right or very very wrong (Like the 2016 election). People forget polling is higly focused with a relatively small sample size, yet many on tv and FB act like polls represent the majority of voters
I believe the polls failed to predict the 2016 election, because people were ashamed of admiting they were going to vote for Trump, so he was underepresented. So it's not the fault of pollsters. Some people simply weren't telling the truth. I believe he might still be underrepresented a little bit in the polls.
@@TheOsamaBahama you're sort of arguing the point that polls are unreliable then, right? Since their basic premise depends on honesty.
If they did a video on it, you'd absolutely hate it. It would be 15 minutes of tearing apart all the inaccuracies in your claims and confusion you seem to have.
For example, the polling in 2016 was some of the most accurate in the history of politics. The gap between post-labor day pre-election polling and final vote counts was remarkably accurate with a 1-2% average error in non-swing states and 2-3% average in swing states. That is far closer than it was in 2012.
Some people, like you, just don't understand the difference between media analysis and what the polls actually said. Or you confused a close race with an inaccurate one.
Also, go watch some intro to statistics classes on Kahn Academy. Maybe follow them up with more detailed videos from udemy or lynda on how polling works. You are just embarrassing yourself with the claims you are making.
4:51 Uh... What country you been livin in for the past 10-15 years!? lol
I think the biggest thing is understanding and recognizing fundamental attribution errors in our own thinking and in arguments we listen to. If I steal bread because I am hungry and you steal bread because you are a criminal, I have wedged myself off from you even though we should work together to figure out why we are both hungry and how we can solve it. We may have differing views, but we understand that at heart we are fundamentally similar in motivation. A lot of hypocrisies need to fall, but this is the one that I feel is most to blame for the decline of trust
Oh Jim Carrey... Guess I'm not seing Sonic after all...