I’m guessing you’re not “Joe average dumbass” then…
But, yeah there’s a guilty schlock kitchy wackiness to these conspiracy theories that I get. I guess it would be more accurate to say “it’s fucking racist if you truly believe that ancient aliens have to be responsible for something because you believe that ancient people couldn’t possibly have had the skills or knowledge to do the amazing things they did.”.
Even from a biological point of view it’s offensive. People haven’t really changed that much in tens of thousands of years except technologically. If you built a time machine and kidnapped an Incan baby, or an Ancient Egyptian baby and raised him or her with modern kids you wouldn’t be able to tell the adult apart from anyone else.
Never heard of Rumble - guessing they think this is their shot at Big Time? Or are they “fringe elements” whose cloud providers will soon remind them of the T&Cs in their contract?
Just an opinion: there are plenty of people whose experience of education was listening to an authority figure and feeling confused. I believe that for some people, listening and feeling confused is proof the speaking is an authority.
I think you are onto something there. I also think that may be partly why some people can get a B.S. or even higher and still have this anti-intellectual streak later on…they never had a firm grounding in critical thinking and so virtually anyone speaking in the same tone and/or in a position of authority like LobsterDaddy are accepted as legit.
I think it also causes some of the backlash - someone else telling them something simplistic that feels correct then becomes a way to have them complain about how the “elitists” (scientists, professors, anyone that actually does know things) wronged them /brainwashed them in college, etc.
This lack of critical thinking leads people to thinking “doing their own research” entails googling until they find someone saying something that feels good. It’s like Lawrence Krauss has said, over and over…you can find a PhD that says nearly anything. All these people need to do is find JUST ONE and they’ll then put them up against a Fauci or a Michael Mann or what have you, and then say “see! both sides! you decide!”
If you don’t know what most of it means, which, be fair, for a PhD you probably won’t, then it doesn’t matter what it says, just what you think it says.
