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Lemmings

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Posted: Tue, 24th Aug 2010 08:09 Post subject:

Fisk, I think it's also a matter of big time-saver, and "laziness".
To go forward faster, you have to build on as much good knowledge and experience gained and shared by others. The sort of knowledge they mean to teach at school.

Nobody would have a long enough life if one had to doubt every single thing that he didn't check and demonstrated himself. So a number of choices of beliefs are made on basis of your own, personal backround, which itself is a lot influenced by people you trust around you. To gain time, or because one is lazy, one will most likely not put much doubt into what comes from this backround.
Of course, science can be tested, verified, demonstrated. But it is just one source of information amongst the many others around us, and to some, it's not worth more than another source.
That said, I'm all for sciences. Just wanted to add a grain of salt.

fisk wrote:

The reason they do this is because so much of our society is built up upon social constructs that shape our perspective of reality. So much so-called knowledge is based upon simple agreements, norms that define the way we view the world and our surroundings. Enough people agree on one thing and it becomes "fact". It's the way religions were constructed in the first place and it's the eternal flaw of mankind, since most are unable to distinguish primitive facts from simple cultural expressions and habit. So many people rationalize their behavior from habits, ie. the tradition of "knowledge" passed down and gifted upon us from our parents or other significant external sources. What separates simple expressions of culture from true science is the primitive fact, the one we can reproduce and that can be reproduced regardless of what culture you have, what language you speak, et cetera.

Unfortunately the line between one and the other is viewed as thin for many, and they cannot distinguish where one begins and the other ends. Hence why there also are very many "scientists" that rhetorically argue to sustain simple norms based on scientific primitive facts. It is all a semblance, a veil of truth clothing a body of informal agreements between individuals passed on through assimilation and repetition which is a part of the human psyche, and the way we learn. A mechanism once known to us can be used to start cults, religions or political empires.

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