It's been a pretty solid week. Mostly fixed a leak under the kitchen sink (I hate plumbing). Had to call in help for our downstairs heat (simple fix I somehow wasn't pulling off). First snow of the season. We've been enjoying "very unusual" warm weather in late November.
I continue to waver between annoyance and despair that people are so suspicious of expertise, including scientific expertise. It works so extremely well. We love our gadgets. AI is dumbfounding. But we've been trained to mock the consensuses of experts in general. We think ourselves possessed of secret knowledge as we've been fed smart-sounding talking points against the most likely reality. I've even heard conspiracies that we never landed on the moon resurfacing.
I don't know what will happen to us. The young are so easily manipulated. I sense that YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, Tik Tok, maybe Twitter are the tools of indoctrination. Whatever you think of his theology, Dan McClellan is the path for those who want to influence in this moment. I've started philosophy shorts on Thursdays, although I just don't have the punch that others do. A generation can easily be lost, and the winners write the history books.
Subjectivity can explain so much away. It often takes a splat to shake us to reality, but it's a final thought.
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