To be or what to be?
Being able to "ride the elevator" in a big company is a great chance but it allows me to see all the decisions on the different levels - and how often the consequences of those hurt. Usually, the management is not used to a person like me, doing this; they not even try to listen. At the same time, if I Would be in the Mngmt I would probably not be able to ride the elevator like this 🤔.
What to do? #leadership#reality
PKD writing presciently about our current information age?
"It is like information theory; it is noise driving out signal. But it is noise posing as signal so you do not even recognize it as noise...If you can float enough disinformation into circulation you will totally abolish everyone’s contact with reality, probably your own included."
Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
For me, this is truly helpful, giving me a way to think about our current #global#realities and consider ways to ameliorate public complacence and our ever-quickening descent into an #apocalyptic#hellscape.
I'm sure others have stated much the same, or better, but this came up in a #YouTube#video I'm watching and I needed this, now.
"When you [post] any of the disaster that is Covid, who are you speaking to? So many [posts]in this genre. All speaking to absent leadership that could fix things. So is there even a point to it, given we’re speaking into a void?
..with #Covid, we have zero chance of succeeding by just firing data & graphs at people. The most open-minded may shift their awareness a little, feel some discomfort, but the overwhelming social pressure of their lives will always win."
You heard that right, science fucks up sometimes, pardon my language
Actually, science fucks up ALL the time, constantly, without fail
For every 1 huge success, there are a string of failures.
Does that mean we shouldn't believe in it?
Nope.
Here's the thing
Most of what you believe is probably false.
Most of it.
Humans tend to cling to what they're told as children
People believe the earth is flat
People believe the clouds that form behind airplanes are "chemtrails"
people will defend, in some cases to their death (or someone else's), the existence of a deity there's no evidence for, aside from a nonsensical book written thousands of years ago by people who thought the earth was the center of the universe, didn't understand gravity, and thought the stars were gods watching us.
Because we cling to beliefs, and only change those when someone shows us we're wrong, and only if they show us in a way that makes US feel smart... and sometimes nothing can change our minds, humans are stubborn.
People probably mocked the first car, it was so inferior to a horse, it may go a little faster, but you keep a horse fed and watered, and treat it right, it'll keep you going for a decade, that thing's going to be a pile of rust, and I'll still be trottin along on my faithful steed. y'all are DUMB.
Point being.
Science, like humans, is wrong about a lot.
Difference is, science questions everything.
Science believes nothing.
So when a scientist is wrong, the scientist learns very quickly they're wrong.
And the act of being proven wrong, and wrong, and wrong again?
That's how you find what's right.
Once you've eliminated all the wrong answers, and you can repeat and test, and fail to prove the right answer wrong, you know. This is right.
I've believed a lot of stupid things in my life, I'm sure I still do
But I also know that science always learns the right answers, because it refuses to accept ANY answer, and fights to prove them ALL wrong.
When science fails, you have your answer.
Science isn't in the business of being right, it's in the business of proving things wrong.
Knowledge, from science, is the result of failure.
So if a group of scientists, who don’t like to agree, at all, says "this is true, and here’s the proof it's true, and here’s our peer reviewed studies showing this is true"
You know what peer review is?
A scientist says "I figured this thing out. Here's my evidence, here's my results, here are the variables I used", and another scientist says "HA! I'm going to prove you're an idiot"
and tries to prove the other scientist wrong.
If they fail, they admit they failed, they admit they couldn't prove it wrong. And so on. Many scientists try, and try to prove them wrong.
once all of the scientists have the same results, and all the anomalies are explained, you have a bunch of people pissed off ONE of them was right. Because their job is to prove them wrong. But they failed to, so they all accept the results. A consensus.
Another year has almost passed, and she has not been cleared of charges. Sure, she got out of prison. But she never should have been in. She tried to warn Americans that Russia was interfering in our elections. While Trump is still free to lie & share information with foreign leaders. #Reality
Lara #Trump is completely detached from #reality. At no point during her appearance did she say anything that indicates she has even the slightest understanding on what's going on.
Nothing that comes out of #Trump's mouth has any connection with #reality. Not one word. Every day it's more #absurd than the last. And yet far too many #media outlets report on it as if it was normal. There should be no #headlines reporting on his words that don't also include a disclaimer that it's a #lie. The media has to be more #vigilant.
Understand that we are up against a #whiteSupremacist#cult in November 2024. Millions of #Americans have decided that the #Nazis were right, and their #ideology should reign supreme in the #UnitedStates. This isn't #fearmongering. This is the #reality we are facing. Voting Blue is the only hope we have of preserving our #republic. If we fail, we'll never again have another opportunity to #vote.