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  • fishos@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldyea
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    7 days ago

    People hate it when you say this. But it’s legit. If people actually were genuinely good and wanted to be good, then would we really have all the problems we do? If one person(sleezy billionaire) can completely wreck society, then was society that strong to begin with? People point out that there are more of us than them, yet the minority them manages to keep the rest of us in line pretty well… Yet we have the power? Well what are we doing with it then?

    The biggest flaw of humanity is we think we are way better than we actually are. But the sad truth is we all are affected by biases, unconscious beliefs, flaws in our reasoning, flaws in our character, flaws in our perception, flaws in our memory, etc. This, in itself, is not a bad thing. It’s pretending like we’re above all of that and that it doesn’t affect us that leads to our downfall and is a bad thing.

    Hubris, made popular in every societies storytelling going back millenia, is our greatest flaw. We think ourselves way better than we truly are.







  • Oh I agree. I just hated how the general public ran with it like it was hard science. All the people downvoting me don’t seem to remember the years of “well myth busters proved this” as the closing argument of so many discussions. Also I find it ironic that the responses are “well it made people think more critically and question things” and here I am thinking critically about their experiments and I’m donvotted to hell 😂




  • fishos@lemmy.worldtoTumblr@lemmy.dbzer0.comI miss these guys
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    9 days ago

    Yeah, but their experiments were often very flawed. I remember they’d do things like take the myth literally instead of the spirit of what it meant, or their experiment setup didn’t match the actual myth. It was fun, and they had a great attitude, but it annoyed the hell out of me whenever people would reference these psuedo experiments and claim something was now “proven”. It was especially egregious when they tried to prove negatives(“this can’t happen”).





  • If you don’t know Seinfeld, then why are you commenting in a thread comparing tech to Seinfeld plots? If you have no context, it’s your own fault. It’s like walking into a library and complaining that there are books. You are aware of what’s going on here, right? I worry about you crypto folks sometimes… If this happens to you frequently, you should see a doctor about neurological conditions. Make sure to mention the crypto to them too. I’m sure it’ll help speed up your diagnosis.