{"id":91,"date":"2015-03-16T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-03-17T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T23:24:36","slug":"what-is-a-skeptic-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/16\/what-is-a-skeptic-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Skeptic? Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another reader responds to an earlier remark<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sounds like your reader works at a corporate entity filled with Twits.\u00a0 Are business types more likely to be twits?\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0 In general, I\u2019m mostly appalled at how incredibly ignorant and stupid most (i.e. > 50%) people are, everywhere.\u00a0 The older I get, the more I observer that even people I\u2019ve known and somewhat liked for decades are actually short-sighted blowhards who don\u2019t significantly examine their own beliefs and motivations to any great extent.\u00a0 Without rationally and continually challenging one\u2019s own preconceived notions or even what one remembers as established facts (since science and general knowledge continue to move forward at a rapid pace), one ends up being ignorant.\u00a0 And that tends to lead to becoming a Twit as well, although being a Twit seems to involve a certain amount of over-confidence egotism.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I try to pick away at foundational assumptions of all sorts of things; I’m not sure how much time I’m wasting vs how much of value I’m learning when I do that.\u00a0 But as my correspondent mentions, knowledge continues to expand at a rapid rate, and even though much of it is not of importance to the general public (how many need to know the nature of a NAND gate?), the simple balloon of knowledge where the important stuff is on the surface will continue to expand at an exponential rate.<\/p>\n

There are days when I’m convinced people are not … stupid, not devotedly ignorant, but simply unable to keep up.\u00a0 Tired.\u00a0 Other days, I’m convinced the smarter, more socially awkward people aren’t socially awkward for some inborn reason, but simply because they didn’t have the time to learn and practice the social graces – being smart takes a tremendous amount of time in just keeping up with that little bit of the balloon that interests you the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another reader responds to an earlier remark: Sounds like your reader works at a corporate entity filled with Twits.\u00a0 Are business types more likely to be twits?\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0 In general, I\u2019m mostly appalled at how incredibly ignorant and stupid most (i.e. > 50%) people are, everywhere.\u00a0 The older I get, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}