Thomas Sowell once said "It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance".
So much of the vitriolic social media discourse of the last 3-4 years is coming primarily from a place of (a) ego and one-upmanship and (b) a belief in being so unquestionably right t…
Thomas Sowell once said "It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance".
So much of the vitriolic social media discourse of the last 3-4 years is coming primarily from a place of (a) ego and one-upmanship and (b) a belief in being so unquestionably right that any other opinion simply cannot be entertained.
We don't know what we don't know.
But we should at least be willing to look and find out.
And that's what's NOT happening.
(Whoever would have thought humans in 2023 would have become MORE narrow-minded than they were 100 years ago??).
Many people have enormous gaps in their knowledge, and don't know it, but absolutely believe they are right; therefore you are wrong. And ego and arrogance do the rest.
I wholeheartedly agree with this!!! Was thinking something along these lines this morning. People have lost their curiosity and willingness to explore anything that goes against what they’ve been brainwashed into. I’ve lost my faith in humanity and don’t think that will recover. I can be the most compassionate person in the room but it means nothing when everyone else is out for themselves. Maybe I’m in the wrong room…
I think in this day and age, THAT is the number one quality I look for: being willing to admit you were wrong and change your views in light of new (or just new to you) information. personally, I know very few people like that, even as MY view/knowledge is expanding every day, because I am doing the work. but there is a wall, so to speak, that one needs to bust through, to be able to be open to the true reality. THAT is very difficult.
I agree totally. In the early days of the plandemic I had no access to data. Being a pharmacist, for decades I had urged people to get their vaccines, and I certainly got mine. I have since spent thousands of hours researching hundreds of articles, and I have become a fervent opponent of most vaccines.
Look at where being "broad minded" and "tolerant" has gotten society. Does not the scientific method narrow the focus of investigations? Have we been able to discern "good and evil"?
Science & appropriate medical protocols seemed to disappear during the pandemic.
Masks were promoted, even mandated, and they have never worked against respiratory viruses.
Early Covid treatment was dismissed in the medical community & Ivermectin was hidden as possible treatment. Not just hidden, it was prohibited for dr.s to prescribe.
When in all of history have we treated every citizen with the same hospital protocols for respiratory virus? Dr.s didn’t take into account co-morbidities, individual health of the patient, etc.
Fever or inflammation wasn’t treated with antibiotics, like prior illnesses. It wasn’t in the protocol. Dr.s couldn’t & STILL don’t deviate from “ recommended” protocols.
There’s no discussion or sharing of information between Dr.s. California even passed a law that censored Dr.s. They are only allowed to tell patients what the “ approved “ information about Covid is.
Science & medicine is about learning and sharing. It evolves as illnesses evolve. Medicines are introduced & sometimes re- introduced & prescribed off label, as a Dr. is allowed & has always been allowed. Not in California- not for Covid. Not in many states.
Science & medicine took a huge hit these past years. The trust, by citizens, is teetering.
Who can blame them? The only good that may have come from Covid is people are thinking and researching more. Critical thinking is fashionable again, instead of blindly accepting medical treatment, testing, or unnecessary fake vaccines.
Thomas Sowell once said "It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance".
So much of the vitriolic social media discourse of the last 3-4 years is coming primarily from a place of (a) ego and one-upmanship and (b) a belief in being so unquestionably right that any other opinion simply cannot be entertained.
We don't know what we don't know.
But we should at least be willing to look and find out.
And that's what's NOT happening.
(Whoever would have thought humans in 2023 would have become MORE narrow-minded than they were 100 years ago??).
Many people have enormous gaps in their knowledge, and don't know it, but absolutely believe they are right; therefore you are wrong. And ego and arrogance do the rest.
I wholeheartedly agree with this!!! Was thinking something along these lines this morning. People have lost their curiosity and willingness to explore anything that goes against what they’ve been brainwashed into. I’ve lost my faith in humanity and don’t think that will recover. I can be the most compassionate person in the room but it means nothing when everyone else is out for themselves. Maybe I’m in the wrong room…
This is one of the reasons I am besotted with the lovely Jessica. She does not hesitate to admit she does not know something.
I think in this day and age, THAT is the number one quality I look for: being willing to admit you were wrong and change your views in light of new (or just new to you) information. personally, I know very few people like that, even as MY view/knowledge is expanding every day, because I am doing the work. but there is a wall, so to speak, that one needs to bust through, to be able to be open to the true reality. THAT is very difficult.
I agree totally. In the early days of the plandemic I had no access to data. Being a pharmacist, for decades I had urged people to get their vaccines, and I certainly got mine. I have since spent thousands of hours researching hundreds of articles, and I have become a fervent opponent of most vaccines.
thank you so much for being open to information that contradicts your education. if only everyone were like that, it would make a HUGE difference.
Look at where being "broad minded" and "tolerant" has gotten society. Does not the scientific method narrow the focus of investigations? Have we been able to discern "good and evil"?
Science & appropriate medical protocols seemed to disappear during the pandemic.
Masks were promoted, even mandated, and they have never worked against respiratory viruses.
Early Covid treatment was dismissed in the medical community & Ivermectin was hidden as possible treatment. Not just hidden, it was prohibited for dr.s to prescribe.
When in all of history have we treated every citizen with the same hospital protocols for respiratory virus? Dr.s didn’t take into account co-morbidities, individual health of the patient, etc.
Fever or inflammation wasn’t treated with antibiotics, like prior illnesses. It wasn’t in the protocol. Dr.s couldn’t & STILL don’t deviate from “ recommended” protocols.
There’s no discussion or sharing of information between Dr.s. California even passed a law that censored Dr.s. They are only allowed to tell patients what the “ approved “ information about Covid is.
Science & medicine is about learning and sharing. It evolves as illnesses evolve. Medicines are introduced & sometimes re- introduced & prescribed off label, as a Dr. is allowed & has always been allowed. Not in California- not for Covid. Not in many states.
Science & medicine took a huge hit these past years. The trust, by citizens, is teetering.
Who can blame them? The only good that may have come from Covid is people are thinking and researching more. Critical thinking is fashionable again, instead of blindly accepting medical treatment, testing, or unnecessary fake vaccines.