Comment

The Trump Fan Who Tweeted Forged Clinton Medical Records Is Back on Twitter

228
Dangerman8/10/2016 9:15:08 am PDT

im nearly done with an interesting book But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

that’s an amazon link

on p. 248 he says

We spend our lives learning many new thing, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we’ve learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it’s that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).

and it struck me to wonder of a very lot of people are demonstrating a profound lack of ability to deal with and reassess the world when they “learn” something they thought was true is either wrong or irrelevant.

and for many, when this happens a lot, because of the nature of a large number of things they “learned” that dont pan out - because they never were “true” - maybe it just leads to a sort of shutdown in reason and processing logic