I realized today, it’s been a minute since I head the “glass is actually a very slow moving liquid” myth from someone. Just wondering if there’s been anything else like this since you were a kid.
I realized today, it’s been a minute since I head the “glass is actually a very slow moving liquid” myth from someone. Just wondering if there’s been anything else like this since you were a kid.
There’s an axiom I don’t know the provenance of:
“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into”
It’s not about the truth to them it’s about making the scary unknown go away so they can get on with their lives. Nevermind the fact that their ignorance is causing their own demise and that of everyone else…
It takes an emotional shock, most of the time, to break that kind of deathgrip on a false reality