nihilisme: posevr: gardenofroseandthorn:oldmanyellsatcloud:sameboot:pseudodesigner: This is
nihilisme: posevr: gardenofroseandthorn: oldmanyellsatcloud: sameboot: pseudodesigner: This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us. Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind. It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself. As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate. Y'all want to respect science except for when people are skeptical and want to test something themselves (which is the whole point of the scientific method) There has been plenty of videos and vines out there of people testing this out for themselves, literally pointing to the device and showing how masks barely affect your breathing. Hence plenty of evidence already out there in the world for you to see. I am asthmatic and my own experience is anecdotal but masks do not affect my breathing. The point of this post is that even when people like OP’s mom SEE the proof their brain still finds a way to deny facts. OP did not explicitly state it, but there is enough content in the post that you can infer that the mom simply did not change her mind, even after seeing clear scientific evidence. The point of the post was on the EFFECTS of indoctrination and not necessarily that you shouldn’t test things out for yourself… -- source link