Thread: About Sopa

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

we are going to have a very, very shitty future.

I've been telling people this since I was 8. No one cares still.

Originally Posted by tommo

I've been telling people this since I was 8. No one cares still.

Me too, maybe not since age 8, but for years leading up to 2008 I was telling friends and family that the shit was about to make contact with fan in the West, and they would dismiss me out of lack of respect. No one gives your words any weight if they think they're better than you. Likewise, people tend to take the word of the people they respect as gospel. Sometimes it's warranted, but for most people respect derives from arbitrary titles. That's why, for example, most Americans believe that Obama can save the country. But I digress...

Point is, most people aren't persuaded by reason. Their monkey brains tend to only believe the words of superior monkeys.

Originally Posted by cmind

Me too, maybe not since age 8, but for years leading up to 2008 I was telling friends and family that the shit was about to make contact with fan in the West, and they would dismiss me out of lack of respect. No one gives your words any weight if they think they're better than you. Likewise, people tend to take the word of the people they respect as gospel. Sometimes it's warranted, but for most people respect derives from arbitrary titles. That's why, for example, most Americans believe that Obama can save the country. But I digress...

Point is, most people aren't persuaded by reason. Their monkey brains tend to only believe the words of superior monkeys.

Too true mate, although I'd put quotation marks around "superior".

For example whenever I'd say something thing about a medical study or similar things, or say something about certain prescription drugs (including one's I've taken) etc. and my mum would be like "You're not a doctor, I'm sure they know better than you". But then even my dad (who is a doctor) admitted that patients even something know more about a drug or intervention in general than the doctors do, because they have the time to research everything about it, whereas doctors do not. The doctors are the ones trusting regulatory bodies etc. to allow safe and effective drugs.

Just an example I can remember.

I suppose most people really are just followers, inferior apes that cannot think for themselves in any meaningful way.