re: #228 dangerman

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

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

I recently found out that something I have lived by since the 70s is not true. The complementary proteins idea from Diet For a Small Planet. Now I can’t eat.