This insight, “ignorance and overconfidence might be useful survival traits,” explains so much about the human condition.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
This insight, “ignorance and overconfidence might be useful survival traits,” explains so much about the human condition.
Reminded me of Fractured Fairy Tales. ;)
Speaking of ‘truth’, are you related to this guy?
“Frankie Myers, vice-chairman of the Yurok tribe.” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-the-largest-dam-removal-project-in-american-history
Tangential, sort of, is Robert Sapolsky’s Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. This book opened my eyes. Sadly, much of our regressive nastiness has been selected for and is nearly unavoidable. I’ve come to accept that intelligence like ours will not prove to be a useful long-term adaptation.
Okay, MONTY PYTHON GOT IT RIGHT!
So, WTH is this guy saying?
Remember the Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
“I’ve chopped your arm off!”
“No you haven’t!”
“It’s right there.”
“Just a flesh wound. Have at you!”
Going back to what I posted yesterday, the testimony of the South Dakota nurse Jodi Doering, telling how MAGAts gasping and dying in the ICU refuse to believe that they have COVID. They say things like, “COVID doesn’t exist” “This must be lung cancer” and other such idiocies.
I post here the link to a video interview with Jodi describing what she is going through
Just to repeat what I said in my post yesterday, and connect it to this post: When nearly half of your population refuses to believe both scientific consensus AND the testimony of their own senses a la the Black Knight, the situation is not humourous (well, darkly), but a frightful emergency.
@FFS ,someone thinking covid is worse than lung cancer .
I thought I recognised Trudy Cooper’s illustrations. Sure enough, as the credits confirmed. Nice.
Why doesn’t Hope have an orange face and a weird furry creature living on it’s head?
nice one, I think I will watch some more of his videos.
To me it points out how we like to “cherry pick” details to fit a story. It is our story telling ability, a useful trait that gives us culture but is also a two edged sword enabling us to pass over details that do not fit the story we find most compelling. We tend to live in our heads and not in the real world with all of its dangers and capriciousness, to think it is about us some how.
I do not know about everyone else but I find it very hard to tell what day it is these days it seems like sunday or friday all the time.
uncle frogy