Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things.

[Karl12]

Thanks for bringing this up... I love many of these 'After Skool' videos generally...  They are almost always worth the time it takes to experience them.

Thanks for the post from you (and others) mate - some very insightful reading.

The question of the video is "Why do smart people believe stupid things?" But this video doesn't really explain why... only how.

Good call and fair point - as another member raised the subject of 'curiousity' maybe part of the answer lies with the absolute genuine lack of it (also 'imagination') within a certain subsection of society.. whether they consider themselves 'smart' or not.

Suppose this absence (and apathy) could also help to explain the 'surrender to conformity' we seem to see so much of these days - whether a bought and paid for 'fashionable' ideology is absolute bollocks or not.

1950's Ash experiments get brought up in this vid and would say some of the channel's other videos are also relevant - especially when it comes to 'manufacturing collective illusions of consensus'.



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Granted implanting socially destructive agendas are actually part of global warfare these days and it's always worth following the money on synthetic ideologies - especially when directed toward young people.

That being said I'm sure I'm just as susceptible to the bandwagon effect (and 'bias blind spot') as anyone else lol.