It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

  • @InverseParallax
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    218 days ago

    Yeah, but that’s the point of education, teaching you that your intuition isn’t always right, and that’s OK.

    Whats devastating is when you combine religion, which says ‘either I’m the chosen of God and therefore if he loves me I’m perfect and can never do wrong’ with modern complexity.

    I know so many people who think being wrong about anything is the end of the world, so they double and quadruple down and can never learn, they get violently defensive if you suggest they’re wrong about the smallest thing.

    College is about repeated exposure to being wrong, and growing from it.