"Arguments are something to be WON, instead of to seek the truth." That's it, that's everything wrong with society.

@emanuelrojas2

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@DanSeadam

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@anthonybowman3423

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@pvtmill3rr

5 жыл бұрын

Look into Flat Earth: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmR5qaSYn5y6irA.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/YoKBl9NrYs2bhqw.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/oK14x9twgbbNl5c.html The Flat Earth Society is Controlled Opposition: kzread.info/dash/bejne/poVlzptye7KcXZM.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

@s.waldron8532

5 жыл бұрын

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.”

@jacksonrelaxin3425

Жыл бұрын

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?

@eddiethailand

4 жыл бұрын

Where is the curvature?

@absentiabenertia5204

4 жыл бұрын

All atoms are...are smaller than dust in the wind...

@vibemunster

4 жыл бұрын

@@eddiethailand Look and you will find, where is the flatness?

@richardst.romain6837

4 жыл бұрын

@@eddiethailand all around you

@greytroll1632

4 жыл бұрын

lmao

Wisecrack: "Flat Earthers will be having their own cruise in 2020" COVID: I'll not stand for this.

@jamesvandamme7786

4 жыл бұрын

Hope they go to Brazil and see the Southern Cross instead of the North Star.

@reubenvlruata9636

4 жыл бұрын

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😅

@jpyanity443

4 жыл бұрын

It just became an anti-vaxxer cruise instead

@avamasquerade

4 жыл бұрын

Technically, they weren't wrong. I mean, who goes on a cruise during a pandemic?

@TheDrewker

4 жыл бұрын

@@avamasquerade Not to mention who allows them? Cruise lines must be struggling even worse than we thought....

The quote: "the gamification of Truth is particularly worrisome." is a severe Understatement.

@Noah-fn5jq

5 жыл бұрын

Only in the same way that is post is under appreciated ;)

@TheWormzerjr

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Noah-fn5jq

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@Angelllro

5 жыл бұрын

Conspiracy theorists would say that USSR willingly accepted their "defeat" as a means to end the space race, it cost them too much.

@AshrakAhmed

5 жыл бұрын

fake news

@b.sharp.

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@ManaMastery

5 жыл бұрын

@@b.sharp. I can't tell if you're joking or not.

@RonaldMcPaul

5 жыл бұрын

@@ManaMastery Yes you can.

I literally have no idea what flat eathers end goal is. It's like a conspiracy for conspiracy's sake

@kingmantheman

5 жыл бұрын

It's a plot by the CIA to mislead the masses and discredit dissenters.

@ridhosamudro2199

5 жыл бұрын

@@kingmantheman Maybe, but if you want to discredit the CIA, MKUltra is a more reputable matter to brought up.

@testsubject2496

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@ridhosamudro2199

5 жыл бұрын

@bcd7977 might as well observe a drying paint, then.

@robinhawkins335

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Flat Earthers: "Only believe what your own eyes are telling you." Me: "Well, then, read some goddamned scientific papers with YOUR OWN EYES."

@Pr.Shadocko

5 жыл бұрын

Or go to see magicians! Thay can make disapear things! you can see it WITH YOUR OWN EYES! xD

@stamtso

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

@stamtso

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

@jackson0335

5 жыл бұрын

Why cant you**

@random007nadir

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

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

@JP-sm4cs

5 жыл бұрын

When were you born?

@sparkydoodle696

5 жыл бұрын

Steven Bills January 93

@JP-sm4cs

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@sparkydoodle696

5 жыл бұрын

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

@freefromflags1480

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@dustyalbones-reendust4385

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@nate2064

5 жыл бұрын

Hey! Logan’s brain is not flat, just perfectly smooth.

@NinjaAimless

5 жыл бұрын

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?

@poweroffriendship2.0

5 жыл бұрын

@@dustyalbones-reendust4385 I mean, I refer "flat human brains" as "stupidity". You just missed the point.

@lollmao3247

5 жыл бұрын

@@poweroffriendship2.0 done did 1920's people think dat?😶

Real quote from a Flat Earther: "I investigate through KZread for over 4 years now, so you can kinda call me an expert."

@truu-dl8rp

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@summpwner7837

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@PrometheusV

4 жыл бұрын

@@summpwner7837 "he had the data..." NICE...

@PendelSteven

4 жыл бұрын

sigh

@truu-dl8rp

4 жыл бұрын

lmao

Flat earthers: lets have a cruise Covid-19: I’m bouta ruin this whole mans career

All of these Theories are easy to explain. Aliens...

@KiomonDuck

5 жыл бұрын

When I read aliens I imagined the hands from the memes.

@jumpingjoy20

5 жыл бұрын

IT ALWAYS COMES BACK TO ALIENS.

@cheetor1987

5 жыл бұрын

There's some sort of wall joke here I think.

@GunmadMadman

5 жыл бұрын

Your thoughts intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter

@Luchingador

5 жыл бұрын

and Aliens are easy to explain. Humans...

Don't teach people what to think. Teach people how to think.

@o76923

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Stettafire

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

@grumblesNhoneybee

5 жыл бұрын

observable reality, is not thinking... Earth is no spinning ball, by any means what so ever in reality.

@lifeyoushouldtryit

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@o76923

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

"Peer review is the backbone of great science." - Doctor Otto Octavius, 2018.

@bendykirby4828

5 жыл бұрын

Star Trek Theory obvious bait is obvious

@aaronsmith1023

5 жыл бұрын

Is that even an actual quote from him?

@thehoepproject7768

4 жыл бұрын

Especially if the peers agree with you and promote your interests.

@williamchamberlain2263

4 жыл бұрын

_It's funny because molluscs don't have backbones!_

@eddiethailand

4 жыл бұрын

So who peer reviews NASA?

"Religious wars" are rarely ever about religion. The religious issues are a veneer over the underlying political questions.

@MidnightTea7

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrElionor

4 жыл бұрын

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

@boffeycn

4 жыл бұрын

Bollocks.

@boffeycn

3 жыл бұрын

@Usman Usmanovic Quite, on one or both sides.

@michaelhorning6014

3 жыл бұрын

Imbecilic bleatings of the historically ignorant. Y'all are great advertisements for education reform.

About 15 years ago, Stephen Colbert dropped the idea of "truthiness", which is really in the same vein of this whole premise.

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

@ethandew1768

3 жыл бұрын

Well sometimes there isnt always an answer

Yesterday: knowledge is power Today: sanity is for the weak!!

You all saw it, Jared confirmed that Wisecrack is Illuminati.

@Funnyso869

3 жыл бұрын

No I didn't

@louisduarte8763

3 жыл бұрын

How do I join? Are they hiring?

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!

@spacekoalalove

5 жыл бұрын

this only applies to *scientific* theories. (also: name checks out lol)

@lish306

4 жыл бұрын

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

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!

@koishiinfinity2125

4 жыл бұрын

@Rudiger Glique which is basically how smart your average flatearther is...

"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"

@gingergamergirl98

5 жыл бұрын

bUT clEARlY NASA phOtOshOPped tHE pICs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OPeN yoUR EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m sorry if reading that gives you a headache lol

@yea4253

5 жыл бұрын

"A picture says a thousand words... Except the thousand pictures proving me wrong obviously"

@camerondale6529

5 жыл бұрын

@@gingergamergirl98 is ok

@river7591

4 жыл бұрын

@Urban Criters WHY TF WOULD THEY DO IT like they would gain nothing from that

@jboyler1

4 жыл бұрын

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.

lol..that one flat-brainer says he trusts his eyes over math. So..I guess he doesn't know how eyes work either.

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.

@WillDraco

5 жыл бұрын

@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."

@jkjk-lb8rm

4 жыл бұрын

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 kzread.info/dash/bejne/eqdnqKWlXbK0eqg.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/ppWr3LKjadTUpM4.html The whole video kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5d21NCCqcirp6w.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

I love these, but I found funny the "Expertise is evaporating" . Wix sponsor time 10s later: "Doesn't matter what's your expertise".

@Stettafire

5 жыл бұрын

I find this funny because I develope web applications. OMG Wix, you'll "push me out of my job" (unlikely) XD

@lior414

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

Thumbs up for the nudge to PBS Spacetime! Matt O'dowd and the crew on that channel are amazing! Also, great video haha

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.

@gondor532

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@katogojira7223

2 жыл бұрын

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? '\_('-')_/'

@callmeej8399

5 жыл бұрын

cavv0667 A-fucking men. Our public education system needs radical changes

@dougmartin2007

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@samzenmcknight3265

5 жыл бұрын

@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).

@pvtmill3rr

5 жыл бұрын

Look into Flat Earth: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmR5qaSYn5y6irA.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/YoKBl9NrYs2bhqw.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/oK14x9twgbbNl5c.html The Flat Earth Society is Controlled Opposition: kzread.info/dash/bejne/poVlzptye7KcXZM.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

@davidahlstrom4711

5 жыл бұрын

Wierd thing to add at the end there

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

@jamietaylor8663

5 жыл бұрын

Whoa that's meta

@SkywardSpork

5 жыл бұрын

@farenheit041 morbid curiosity, be interesting to see what drives the channel

@unchosenzombie5144

5 жыл бұрын

@@SkywardSpork What drives the channel is new world order propaganda, this is what drives every channel on youtube.

Well spoken. Anyone can become an "expert" today after watching 20 minutes of KZread.

@JewTube001

5 жыл бұрын

more like spending 2 seconds reading a headline off something.

@flatearthreality8683

5 жыл бұрын

well yes, youtube was place of FREEDOM of INFORMATION. but not anymore, truth is now being censored, flat earth and other truths

@bendykirby4828

5 жыл бұрын

Flat Earth Reality Stop with the blatant bait my guy

@sarifbakari2839

4 жыл бұрын

Flat Earth Reality the real flat thing is your brain

@nikhilpranav6915

3 жыл бұрын

Flat Earth Reality I explained the physics to two other people, they were reasonable and had hope, you can piss off.

I really hope the "Game of Thruth" has a better ending than it's fantasy counterpart.

Dammit. Looks like the lizard people got ahold of wisecrack.

@spacekoalalove

5 жыл бұрын

why do you say that

@wargriffin5

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@nikhilpranav6915

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, we are time travelling, human eating, shape shifting lizard gods.

Philosophy/Analysis of avatar the last airbender?

@unwantedmacguffin5611

5 жыл бұрын

The TV show not the movie. The movie is trash.

@hasanal-hussein7079

5 жыл бұрын

@@unwantedmacguffin5611 lol why the fuck would anyone talk about the movie besides criticizing it

@Andshrew94

5 жыл бұрын

@@unwantedmacguffin5611 They could do a What Went Wrong episode.

@kgblackout1

5 жыл бұрын

@@Andshrew94 Too many things went wrong that movie to even attempt an analysis of it.

@biggus6633

5 жыл бұрын

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.

Half of my family lives in USA. Most of them started believing in conspiracy theories when they moved there. America... Y U DO DIS?! -.-'

@rhaenyrareigns2200

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

@politereminder6284

5 жыл бұрын

@Bryce yikes! Thought police much? 🤔

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 see only possibility for flat-earthers to prove anything: bring a group of "scepticists" to the edge of Earth))

@MajinSayon

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! "Where's the edge, Lebowski? Where's the @&$!% edge, Lebowski?!"

@Shuizid

5 жыл бұрын

Would be enough if they made a picture of Mount Everest - from the USA. Shouldn't be to hard on a flat earth.

@digitalgamer3722

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly. The best reply I ever heard was if the earth is flat cats wouldve pushed everything off by now

@jamietaylor8663

5 жыл бұрын

Or into space

@BombaJead

5 жыл бұрын

@@unchosenzombie5144 I don't know what to say to you, I just hope you can regain your trust in society someday.

I'm not saying it's aliens... But it's aliens.

@seanbaugh3239

5 жыл бұрын

So what are you saying ???

@kingmantheman

5 жыл бұрын

@@seanbaugh3239 he's saying it's aliens. But HE'S not saying that.

@seanbaugh3239

5 жыл бұрын

@@kingmantheman So what are you saying about what he's saying ???

Where can I find that Poop Sandwich book??? LOL!

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 KZreadrs like Wisecrack. KZreadrs are starting to fulfill this role because we trust independent creators more so than big groups. Thanks for the video, really gets you thinking.

Wait, Jim Carrey is an antivaxxer? Well that sucks.

@CapitalMort

5 жыл бұрын

He also trusts the mainstream media and thinks socialism is a good idea. He's lost the plot.

@cobrakingofeart

5 жыл бұрын

imo that post seemed more libertarian than anti vaxxer but in reality he's more of a troll than anything else.

@LibraGamesUnlimited

5 жыл бұрын

Given how his mind works I'm not surprised.

@Valuemeal_papi

5 жыл бұрын

what's an antivaxxer?

@LibraGamesUnlimited

5 жыл бұрын

@@Valuemeal_papi Someone who is against vaccinations because they're bought into a lot of B.S.

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".

@rayxusa.mp3

5 жыл бұрын

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,

7:56 Woah wait, I’m no flat-earther, but I hope you’re not implying mk-ultra didn’t actually happen.

@quigglyjohnston6118

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@sskspartan

5 жыл бұрын

@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

@olis87

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@tonedeafduck4859

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@olis87

5 жыл бұрын

@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 :)

Thanks for the recommendation of "Nervous State" just added it on Audible, sounds like a fascinating topic and I look forward to reading it. Great video!

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.

@Stettafire

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@-47-

5 жыл бұрын

@@Stettafire I remember in the earlier years of school we'd be punished for being skeptical

@ayior

5 жыл бұрын

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'm watching this May 22, 2020. I had to check the date twice, I thought you made this video a week ago, not a year ago.

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.

No spoilers? The true shape of the Earth is the biggest spoiler in some people's lives

@gregoryefs9898

5 жыл бұрын

"True shape" is too ambiguous for my tastes in a comment section about flat earthers...

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.

@Hel1mutt

5 жыл бұрын

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.

Well, I'm thoroughly depressed now.

@hi_imakebadart

3 жыл бұрын

same

Thank you for the wix plug

The Philosophy of Metalocalpyse would be quite insightful despite being dump on the surface...I'd argue its actually quite deep

@nixadventures3938

5 жыл бұрын

On behalf of all metalheads. Thank you.

@zaczane

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

Last time I came this early I was still welcome at the library.

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.

Oh the "who dies of the flu" bit is PAINFUL hearing in a day of Covid-19.

I think Jared wearing a Joker 1600 shirt is a conspiracy.

@camerondale6529

5 жыл бұрын

Alan Watts - The Joker

You guys should do philosophy of The Maxx!

@thelostpawn

5 жыл бұрын

Joshua Morelion yaaaaasssss

@dodgers4275

5 жыл бұрын

@illyounotme yes! Then we must join forces and have everyone see The Maxx!

Who wrote your outro music? That s#!t is Bangin'!

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.

Could wisecrack do a “The Philosophy of Hunter S Thompson”

Can you please cover the Leftovers this show has so many themes and symbolism.

@_0______00__________0_______0

5 жыл бұрын

One of the best shows of this decade that nobody saw. Still a toss up for me between that and Twin Peaks.

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:

@dirtydish6642

4 жыл бұрын

@Fortunate One ok bot

@dirtydish6642

4 жыл бұрын

@Fortunate One b o t

1:42 people, 1:42.

The real question is.... DID JARED HAVE HIS HAIR CUT? OR IT SHRANK DOWN?????

@MorbidEel

5 жыл бұрын

His "hair" is actually an alien that is controlling him.

@Ciborium

5 жыл бұрын

It was the chemtrails!

Good video but that pizza gate story not as wack as it’s been labeled.

Watching this again during covid is a trip

@sPanKyZzZ1

3 жыл бұрын

Same

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.

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.

Wow this channel is really grasping at straws here. I dont believe in any of this stuff but i know that some in the past have turned out to be true, even very recently. You guys seem like your propping up an agenda here.

Probably one of your best video essays...very timely too...

Conspiracy is term coined by the c.I.a prove me am wrong please

@kingmantheman

5 жыл бұрын

They can't prove you wrong... but the CIA is just a front for deeper intelligence organizations

Do a video on Game Of Thrones : What went wrong?

@Noah-fn5jq

5 жыл бұрын

The writer stopped producing source material.

@thequitestupid

5 жыл бұрын

D&D got lazy

@ramahan21

5 жыл бұрын

@@Noah-fn5jq providing*

@stuartmatthews91

5 жыл бұрын

I think we all have a handle on that..

@schoolaccount8576

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing went wrong

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.

@TheKayden9

5 жыл бұрын

jack Lennon tldr

@midolamani4536

5 жыл бұрын

I have one question, how in the world did you write all that in a small amount of time

@Osmo-7777

5 жыл бұрын

U make hell of sense. ppl are gonna be full of shit but it all comes down to us to decide not someone else

@seanbaugh3239

5 жыл бұрын

*Hey Matthew McConaughey !!! Pipe down and pass the blunt already !!!* *"NUFF SAID"*

@jacklennon1035

5 жыл бұрын

@@midolamani4536 funky magus

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

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"

My fave video thus far. Very thoughtful, Wisecrack! I appreciate the page citation on your videos as well. It shows how much thought and effort that goes into making and researching a topic. Like!

4:51 Uh... What country you been livin in for the past 10-15 years!? lol

Questioning just one of these 2 topics, would make you re-valuate your core belief in everything and that's too much work for most of the population. You just won't accept any proof or evidence because it would break a belief, so important that would make you rethink everything about the world and the authority system. Its call cognitive dissonance and its a natural state of the process to protect your mind. You immediately ridicule the subject or use name calling to categorize it as absurd without rethinking or doing any research at all.

Quite a wonderful video. Needed this rn. Thanks my dude.

I don't know how but somehow this is Alan Moore's fault.

So glad that i can just point people to this video now. Trying to explain that there's an underlying issue creating conspiracy theorists, that they're not just dumb people, usually gets me marked as one of them, and promptly ridiculed. I'm pro vax, believe the earth is a geoid, etc. But my own side is the one i find to be the hardest with whom to have a serious conversation about these topics. I also think many of the people on my side are just in it so they can ridicule someone else, and position themselves above other people.

Wonderful video , leaves a lot to think about. Now how do we fix this issue ....

Despite this obvious hit piece on free thinkers, these days the difference between a conspiracy theory and proven fact, is about 6 months.

@gmr4life884

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@redoz9768

2 жыл бұрын

@@gmr4life884 only by spherical Earth believers who have never done any research themselves.

@gmr4life884

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

You're the last good Jared on KZread. Please, stay scandal-free.

@kaziislam2785

5 жыл бұрын

ProJared, Jared from Subway, who's next?

@Ciborium

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@jasonk7675

5 жыл бұрын

oof....

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.

@gabriel300010

5 жыл бұрын

The natural crisis of capitalism, eroding confidence and trust in our experts...

@danielrice459

5 жыл бұрын

@@gabriel300010 Yes I will give you that, but trust works in both directions. #capitalismforever!

What I find very interesting as well is the emergence of predatory publishers, that make websites that look exactly like proper journals, but are not peer reviewed and will publish anything as long as you pay them. Those are able to even fool young scientists, who aren't experienced in weeding out the BS or are desperate to publish their work in the "publish or perish" environment. How are people who don't even know what peer review is and have no idea that this phenomenon even exists to distinguish between bogus science and the real deal? Especially when people who should be experts in societal things and be sensible in what they share - politicians and other public figures - fall for them and share the fake science with their broad audiences. Honestly, as annoying as I find the modern conspiracy theory sphere, I can still understand their frustration with society not giving them anything to mentally hold on to. Who to believe and who to trust becomes hard to determine, if liars and idiots are broadcasted as loudly as actual experts.

The problem with this video is a lot of the stuff has come out as true over time, which only reinforces people's doubts.

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.

@iz2333

5 жыл бұрын

@illyounotme Nearly all scientific studies have publicly available abstracts or summaries.

@timothymclean

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@alexanderrahl7034

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@thamus90

5 жыл бұрын

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 :)

Has anyone else started getting an exceedingly large amount of ads for conspiracy theories after watching this video?

The problem is, conspiracy theorists take the idea of the illegitimacy of experts way too far.

@gondor532

5 жыл бұрын

If the experts were caught lying 10 times before, why should they be trusted 11th time?

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

@TheOsamaBahama

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mr_Case_Time

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheOsamaBahama you're sort of arguing the point that polls are unreliable then, right? Since their basic premise depends on honesty.

@o76923

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@o76923

5 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

I see the video "Debunking Flat Earthers While Drinking Their Tears" in the recommended, yes I'm going to watch it

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!

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?

@algum.cara1

5 жыл бұрын

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

@dl2839

5 жыл бұрын

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.

I don't believe in flat earth, but wisecrack either intentionally misrepresents them or has not done their research......CONSPIRACY!?!

Wisecrack, you guys are my favorite KZread channel! 🥰 Even if I’m not familiar with the subject, I always watch bc something sparks my interest. I love how your videos make me think, introduce me to different concepts and inspire me to find my own answers. I look forward to new videos every week and just wanted to say thanks and I appreciate what you do! Oh, and imma go with both - earth is flat, the planet is round 😉

Excellent, especially the "Game of Truth"-Part, which I think is the most critical truth to understand. We cannot build any trust among each other as long as we keep playing this game instead of actually truly caring for a healthy society. This starts with actually listening to each other and not just trying to win every single debate to feel good about your sad ego for a brief moment.