Comment on US education
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoIt conditions them into believing that there are powerful and mysterious forces at work in the world that can’t be explained but must be taken on faith. If they get into the habit of looking for answers to questions, they might start asking other inconvenient questions. My sunday school teacher had a similar spiel about how god was like the wind, we couldnt see or touch him but we could see the effects of his actions.
Yep.
It boils down to:
Reality is actually magic, and our magic guide book, and my interpretation of said magic guide book, is more correcr than any other book or person, because this book is the bestest magical book, and I am the bestest knower of the magic book.
It is magical thinking, a worldview based on a psuedo reality derived from psuedo logic (where psuedo means ‘fake’, ‘impostor’, ‘sham’), which is a key component of many cults and also severe psychological disorders.
Funny, I heard the exact same explanation for Dark Matter. But the context was ‘so we know, there’s something there, we cannot explain, which is why we need to study more or even rethink what we thought to know about gravity/the universe’. Science is awesome!
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is really clever. Soften them up slowly but surely. Infest their world view with this nonsense and then one day they will be ready for the sales pitch.