[Sheesh... this ramble really needed some work. Maybe I'll go back through it... but probably not.]
Problem is, when people begin with this skeptic/metabunk vs. bunk (or
conspiracy theorist tribes vs. coincidence theorist tribes stuff)
instead of beginning with science and the empirical and experimental
evidence while being open to crossing from one tribe to another then
they aren't real "truthers" or real skeptics and debunkers. I'm not
sure what the big deal is in the minds of many is with respect to using
their imaginations is, though. It's not like one individual on the
internet switching tribes or crossing back and forth is going to change
the entire world before they go the way of the Dodo. So why not focus
on all the evidence and begin by being open to all possible theories, no
matter what tribe the information/"evidence" comes from?
After all, even "criminal" tribes/gangs or the organized gangsters who
pay PR firms to lie for them and intelligence services to manipulate
perceptions for them could be right about a lot... even if they're
"usually" lying. Even conspiracy theorists that never met a pattern
that they couldn't imagine being totally true could be right... even if
they're "usually" crazy. And even coincidence theorists that never saw
an artifact of sentience that they couldn't imagine as a collection of
random dots arranged by happenstance could be right... actually, no
they couldn't. Hah. They're the only people that you can be certain
are wrong. Based on a way of thinking that's been given to them in
modern times, such as it is, you could do this based on your own ordered
brain events emerging from a void of nothing but chaos...
"""""randomly.""""" Imagine that!
“All is Number”. ― Pythagoras
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