no, i don’t think that the “common man’s position has to be abandoned”. In fact, i think that people should be allowed to believe that the earth is flat. For 99% of people, that is what they can observe in their daily lives, and it’s the simplest model that “gets the job done” (i.e. navigates the person through their daily lifes). You only need to know that the earth is a globe if you’re doing international trade, geopolitics, or spaceflight (or weather prediction, for some reason). For every other application, it does not matter.
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- 28 days
I hope this opinion remains unpopular until it is held by no one.
- Peacepath@lemmy.worldEnglish27 days
Keeping people uneducated makes it easier for scammers of all kind to abuse them. But is there an other aim at this bad education?
- DjangoFett@lemmy.zipEnglish28 days
I upvote because I strongly disagree.
The better educated and informed the populace, the better and more informed their decisions will be as well as their ability to articulate the how and why of those decisions.
If you can’t even agree on objective reality, then there’s no way a coherent discourse can ever be achieved.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish28 days
Flat Earth isn’t the “common man’s” position. Only about 10% of people think that, as far as I can tell from poll results. The bottom 10%.
The “common man” doesn’t mean the worst, stupidest man in existence.
- vrek@programming.devEnglish28 days
The fact that the earth is round vs flat doesn’t really matter in everyday life, that is true. But it shows a lack of critical thinking and a lack of desire for knowledge. That’s the problem. We should encourage critical thinking and encourage understanding how the world works.
Reminds me of the final scene in that “beyond the curve” documentary on the flat earth series. Thus group designs their own experiment. They run their experiment. They get the exact result they stated would prove the world was curved. Their response? “something must be wrong with our equipment”. Thinking like that is the issue. You can have a theory but when tested and proven false you should disregard that theory. If other people share knowledge which proves your theory wrong you should disregard that theory.
28 daysMaybe not in a street sweepers every day life, but in mine it definitely does. Network speeds would be vastly different on a flat earth map.
- Bohne93@feddit.orgEnglish28 days
Yeah, no, nothig common about that position. That is very much the bottom 3% take.
