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In reply to the discussion: I think the whole country is sick and tired of his bullshit... [View all]ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)You live in a country where tens of millions of people believe in all-powerful imaginary friends. After that, it's a day that ends in Y that most of them can believe any nonsense whatsoever.
If you're gullible enough to buy one thing that's stupid, you're likely to be gullible to believe even more stuff that's stupid. And try getting out of it once you're wallowing in stupid. People don't tend to escape it, and don't even try to. They double down, because they're too proud to admit a mistake and say, "Well, I bollocksed that right up." As Carl Sagan famously pointed out, once you get bamboozled, you almost never get out of the bamboozle--because you're too proud to admit you got played.
We need to teach everyone, from an early age, that it's okay to be wrong sometimes, as long as we learn from it. Besides, it's inevitable that everyone, even the smartest people, will be wrong about something. There's no way we can know everything, right off. That's why we all need to learn that mistakes are shameful only if we refuse to learn from them.
But try to get that across to a society that values "owning" people.