RE: It's a complete "Conspiracy". Have you noticed the recent change?
The cultural influence on lucid thought is so devastating, most people don’t even value true knowledge and understanding, no less actively seek it. Being the “winner” is more important than discerning the truth, and if you can do that with appeal to stone, ad hominem, punching someone in the face, then why bother trying to figure stuff out?
Philosophy is *taboo - just think about that... take a conversation deep - to the root causal factors - and you’ve just killed the conversation. You’re a snooze, a bore, out of step with culturally-sanctioned behavior, and thus crazy or a loser. You may as well have just sneezed in the punch bowl.
The easiest thing in the world is to laugh someone into losing an argument; especially if the truth lies below intellectual sea level for the culture. Everyone will perceive the bully as the winner if he frames it right.
All the world is deceived, my friend. Our job isn’t merely to push a boulder up a hill, but to push a fallen moon back into orbit. The odds are desperately slim; but it’s literally our only option to save humanity. So keep on, and here’s to miracles...
Yep. Sometimes it works out, but it is rare. That makes it worth it still. The alternative is surrender. Not my style.
Agreed, brother.