To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

  • @masquenox
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    711 months ago

    Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

    “90%” doesn’t feel very factual to me.

    No, I don’t feel (or think) that.

    If 90% of the population was stupid there’d be no need to spend uncountable billions brainwashing them with propaganda at every turn, would it?

    FYI… I once worked in the propaganda industry - propaganda doesn’t work on the stupid (and I use that term lightly, since I’m not sure “stupid” is something that even really exists). The smarter you assume yourself to be, the more susceptible you are.