TrickDacy

Are you thinking his email included his home address and an invitation to come debate? Unless it did, seems like a pretty accurate headline to me.

So trump covering up the Epstein files in plain view is what convinced them he is innocent? I'm starting to think that severe mental illness exists in like 75% of people.

These pieces of shit pretend not to understand that protecting the environment is about protecting people. They know it is, they just don't give a fuck.

Thanks. The user I was talking to here was quite reasonable and that made it easy for me to reciprocate.

I don't know who is belittling them. The same way I feel bad for a person screaming on the street, this post is a fucking bummer.

You might be onto something here. I'm not sure though. I have a feeling it's complicated and something we won't fully understand any time soon.

If anything that text should've been sent in reverse.

Last night was fun, but it was weird the way you looked at me when I ate food at a restaurant. I don't wish to continue this.

I thought were were discussing rationality. It seems like you are saying humans are not rational because they are also irrational, and I'm saying that the only reason we exist as we do today is because of lots of rational plans and decisions. Ultimately we're both rational and irrational as a species. The fact that it's much harder to argue that we're rational in this current moment in time is what vexes me. It's definitely a change. Facts made a much bigger impact 20 years ago.

I wasn't very clear about the cooperation part. What I mean wasn't that you have to be rational to cooperate. What I'm saying is that you have to be rational to plan out things that take dozens or hundreds of years and effectively utilize the cooperation of thousands of individuals who are all looking to solve the same problem.

You are using modern societal issues like inequality as evidence that we aren't rational, but I dispute that strongly. Those problems used to be much, much worse, literally because the ruling class used a rational but evil plan to take care of themselves. Because of rational working class fighting back in a very organized and rational manner at a few different points in history, we made progress against them. We don't have a 40 hour work week or OSHA in America because a bunch of emotional and angry public kept trying random things without a thought. We have those things from planning and hard work. Both are examples of being entirely rational.

We are not a logic, rational creature. Our brains are not machines for working out problems, they’re machines for telling stories to create a coherent narrative.

I gotta push back against this. It's much more complicated than this. Humans have a complex brain, with some parts matching this description perfectly, and others that do not at all. If we were not capable of both being rational and prioritizing facts, we'd probably still be roughly the same as chimpanzees. Instead, we developed incredibly complicated systems for accomplishing long term goals, and throughout human history, cooperation based on rational thought has played a huge role in the direction our species took. Hell, without that ability, there probably wouldn't have ever been a coherent ruling class. They wouldn't have been able to put all the pieces in place to hoard wealth indefinitely.

What I see now as a distinct change is that rational thought just literally gets turned off at will, at any moment. In the past, 98% of people would watch a video of a crime and agree at least roughly on what happened. Now people literally seem to deny what their visual cortex perceives in favor of something they heard already. That is new.

You're right about all of this. What I can't fathom though -- is that in the past, facts mattered. A lot. How did all of the propaganda literally erase that entirely? That's what I cannot figure out. It's not like the internet invented the concept of the lie. Before social media, at least most people would have some skepticism and if nothing else, ask their smart friend. How the hell did that go away?

Ps the edit time was 6 minutes after posting. Why lie about that?