And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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    It is not the obvious function of knowledge that’s at issue, it is its quality. When the observation and the knowledge get too far apart, the words cease to refer to the observation and begin to refer only to themselves.

    And then the quality becomes poopoo. A solipsistic black hole.

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      10 months ago

      I have never verified 99% of the knowledge I read in textbooks either. But aside from math little in the textbooks held much truth. Especially the economy books.