Why Smart People Believe in Nonsense

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @TheFoxholeLife
    @TheFoxholeLife 3 месяца назад +15

    "With a little bit of knowledge, comes certainty.
    With more knowledge, comes uncertainty."

  • @poksnee
    @poksnee 4 месяца назад +35

    You are confusing intellectual with intelligence, and that is a big mistake. A college degree does not make you intelligent. Back when college meant something, one had to be intelligent to get into college. The purpose of college is to gain knowledge and learn to utilize your cognitive abilities.

    • @XXISecolo
      @XXISecolo 4 месяца назад +3

      Agree, considering that for dunning-kruger effect in general uneducated mind and not so bright ones tend to overestimate their understanding and their actual comprehension of things, clever, educated and sane minds keed doubts in their pocket!

    • @BlacksmithTWD
      @BlacksmithTWD 4 месяца назад +6

      I'd even argue that a college degree doesn't necessarily make one an intellectual.

    • @fredrikostman7870
      @fredrikostman7870 4 месяца назад +2

      It used to be that you had to be rather intelligent to be admitted to college, and to manage to finish it with a degree, so for the largest part of living academics, the judgement holds. However, what isn't considered in the film is the rise since the sixties of midwittery, i.e. that it used to be much more difficult, requiring even higher intelligence, and this older, more elite, much smaller group, was not as affected by these problems as the mass-admitted lot today. Mass education is behind this problem. The midwits with their social self-programming used to be kept down and out of intellectual circles.

    • @ickster23
      @ickster23 4 месяца назад

      I believe "The purpose of college was..." is more accurate, vice "is".

    • @johnduffin9425
      @johnduffin9425 3 месяца назад +2

      @@BlacksmithTWD Makes them less in my experience.

  • @surfacesweller751
    @surfacesweller751 2 месяца назад +5

    Somebody send this video to the RUclipsr known as Destiny.

    • @Don.tKillTheMessanger
      @Don.tKillTheMessanger 2 месяца назад +1

      They need to send it MAGA. It describes ppl like RFK jn, Musk, DeSantis, Gaetz, Vance, and others that should know better than to jump down conspiracy laden rabbit holes.

  • @RootlessNZ
    @RootlessNZ 4 месяца назад +6

    It's not that I'm always right. It's just that everyone else is always wrong.

  • @mitchinoz3787
    @mitchinoz3787 3 месяца назад +13

    Mr. Brain seems to be very sure about his own opinions instead of being curious. A good example of someone who is more prone to delusions?

  • @joestar6194
    @joestar6194 4 месяца назад +8

    " All i know is that i know nothing," Socrates

    • @jaygee553
      @jaygee553 2 дня назад

      .....and how do you know THAT?

  • @householdone7559
    @householdone7559 3 месяца назад +3

    I'd describe intelligence a the ability to grasp new concepts. Understand things not seen before more than the ability to achieve goals.
    Achieving goals seems more like perseverence.
    Intelligence to my mind is taking someone, showing them something and them understanding it more quickly than someone else.

  • @surfacesweller751
    @surfacesweller751 2 месяца назад +4

    This video accurately describes the RUclipsr known as Destiny. Destiny is such a high IQ individual that he can rationalize something that is wrong and have you in a position where you have to defend what is right.

    • @randalljames3844
      @randalljames3844 2 месяца назад

      Destiny is the world's smartest dumb guy

    • @dudebro91-fn7rz
      @dudebro91-fn7rz 2 месяца назад

      Destiny is a self admitted sociopath

  • @MagnanimousWaffle
    @MagnanimousWaffle 2 месяца назад +1

    Great video, wish it was longer.

  • @rambro5104
    @rambro5104 4 месяца назад +3

    Its not about supporting being fat. Its about people who are okay to be fat or are having a really hard time to get fit. By judging them, makes it even more difficult und you can't take the right to treat them below you. But yes, its not right to trivialize the negative consequences of obesity.

  • @desertegle40cal
    @desertegle40cal 2 месяца назад +1

    I consume a ridiculous amount of information. After college I realized it felt good to learn new things. But I’ve never heard anyone mention anything along the lines of “being fat is healthy”. Nor have I heard or read of anyone arguing that supporting a healthy lifestyle is a form of white supremacy. I guess the next video he should make is “how people take the exception, and try to claim it’s the rule”. Just like the litter boxes in classrooms propaganda. Nobody could prove it was happening, and if it was, it was happening on such a small scale that it was almost impossible to prove it was occurring, and yet you had parents and other people in front of congress screaming something must be done about it. Insane! The exception trying to become the rule.

  • @Thaco69
    @Thaco69 4 месяца назад +41

    And here I thought this was going to be an interesting psychology video. Instead, I get right-wing psychobabble, suffering from the exact thing it's purporting to be talking about.

    • @jaredjohnson8387
      @jaredjohnson8387 4 месяца назад +16

      Phew, thought it was just me

    • @johnduffin9425
      @johnduffin9425 3 месяца назад +2

      Getting flack while being directly over the target. gotcha!

    • @seansmagee
      @seansmagee 3 месяца назад +6

      That’s what I expected as well! Very disappointed to see it was just right-wing propaganda.

    • @Ropeorsnake
      @Ropeorsnake 2 месяца назад

      Really

    • @MattBerbee
      @MattBerbee 2 месяца назад +2

      I thought he was right on. If you’re taking it personally maybe you should think about that.

  • @megret1808
    @megret1808 2 месяца назад +1

    The Dunning-Kruger Effect is everywhere

  • @Mtomery
    @Mtomery 3 месяца назад +1

    The obsession with status is the issue. Some good points raised, thanks.

  • @jerrycapodilupo9195
    @jerrycapodilupo9195 3 месяца назад +4

    ❤ We don't believe what we see.... WE SEE WHAT WE BELIEVE.....

  • @jerrycapodilupo9195
    @jerrycapodilupo9195 3 месяца назад +4

    ❤ You contradict yourself. ARE THEY ACTUALLY INTELLIGENT ?? ...OR JUST APPEAR TO BE SO ? We are all being tricked. It all has much to do with Ego. You need HEART. An intelligent person with no compassion is a monster.

  • @razzberrylogic
    @razzberrylogic 3 месяца назад +2

    So, the bottom line is that human beings are flawed in many ways... Thanks for the news flash.

  • @tiitola
    @tiitola 2 месяца назад +2

    This is deep. Well presented and insightful. Thanks for sharing 👍.

  • @ricklupien7598
    @ricklupien7598 4 месяца назад +12

    I find it impossible for smart people to support Donald Trump, yet many many do. WTF?

    • @ickster23
      @ickster23 4 месяца назад +1

      Is it possible that a portion of smart people do support Trump, just as a portion of smart people do support Harris? Is it possible that people have different assessments of each of the individuals and their parties? I posit that a "smart" person would realize that, given the USA had well over 330M people, it is extremely likely that there are cadres of "smart people" who support both candidates. Denigrating them for not aligning with your beliefs is a sign of intolerance.

    • @scytaleghola5969
      @scytaleghola5969 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@ickster23Don't confuse voting for Harris as support for Harris. A large number of people who voted for Biden in 2020 were actually voting against Trump.
      I didn't vote for Trump in 2016 because he had no political experience. President of the United States is the most political job in the known universe. Trump was unqualified.
      I didn't vote for Trump in 2020 because he was still unqualified, but also because he had proven himself objectively bad at the job.
      I won't be voting for Trump in 2024 because he is still unqualified, still bad at the job, but mostly because he violated his oath of office last time. Some things are so bad, there should be no second chances.

    • @scytaleghola5969
      @scytaleghola5969 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@ickster23Just curious, what assessments might a smart person make that would lead them to vote for Trump?
      I honestly can't think of any. Im not denigrating anyone. I'm just suggesting that I don't think people who vote for Trump are making an informed, intellectual decision.

    • @ickster23
      @ickster23 3 месяца назад

      @@scytaleghola5969 I'm not confusing the two reasons for voting for someone. As per the fact that there are smart people who support both candidates for various reasons, there are also smart people who vote against a candidate rather than for a candidate. There will also be smart people who believe that both sides are essentially the same, so they stay home on voting day. 330M people is lot of people, and there will be many variations of why people vote for one candidate or another regardless of IQ. What I was doing was refuting the need to denigrate those who chose differently from oneself.

    • @ickster23
      @ickster23 3 месяца назад

      @@scytaleghola5969 Before I answer, let me explain my position. I'm not American and don't vote in the US, nor do I even vote in my own country of Canada. I refuse to taint myself by supporting any ideology that seeks power over others. This allows me to criticize with far less bias than someone who is politically active.
      That being said, here are some reasons why someone might vote for Trump.
      1. He was president once already. Most of the things his political opponents said he would do to destroy the country and democracy didn't come true during his term and most likely won't come true during his second term if he is elected.
      2. There are many who see Trump as a better manager of the economy. Again, the economy was far better during his term than recently for your average blue collar worker. The stats may say otherwise, but again, results with the voters is what matters. If the average voter is not seeing the results government and media are speaking of, they will not only support the other candidate, but they will come to distrust the source of what is being propagated.
      3. Many smart people value their freedom and independence. From my observations, Liberals, Democrats, and other left of centre ideologies have clearly demonstrated a tendancy to prefer centralized, top down, authoritarian, intolerant concepts that censor and subvert what once were the founding concepts of Liberal ideology. Trump, to them , appears to be less inclined towards these statist tendencies.
      4. Many who don't identify with the urban educated elite have taken umbrage with the terminology used by Democratic leaders such as Clinton and Harris to describe them. Trump, while a rich man and probably thinks similarly, hasn't opening scorned the blue collar class as deplorable a or other such labels. You have to remember, that just because they may be "blue collar", doesn't mean they are stupid, as many with degrees tend to believe.
      5. Trump is seen as more honest by many. Yes, you may grimace, as his business dealings have always been shady, but most Trump supporters see this shady business side as something that impacts banks and millionaires. This is contrast to the lack of transparency and honesty of the current administration on many things. The outright dishonesty told throughout the pandemic, as well as the Hunter Biden laptop affair, the Russia collision hoax, the denial of Biden's mental degradation, and the loss of $1T dollars by the Pentagon are just a few examples amongst many why many may think Trump will be a more honest candidate. Truth be told, honesty and politics are not mutually compatible.
      5. Many smart people see the dangers of the politicization of Federal Agencies. The alignment of these agencies with the Democratic party, when coupled with my third point, lead many to see Trump as presenting less risk to Democracy than the Democratic party does. From my analysis, every significant political party of every western nation has greatly undermined democratic principles over the past decade, but again, we are speaking about how people view things currently. The reality is that the FBIs collision with the Democratic party in suppressing free speech via corporate ties and the spread of government sponsored misinformation such as the Hunter laptop debacle has pushed some towards Trump.
      I could add more, but I hope this gives you something to think about.

  • @ericswidler8743
    @ericswidler8743 4 месяца назад +15

    Wow, at 0.48 you became a perfect example for the topic of the video.

    • @fredrikostman7870
      @fredrikostman7870 4 месяца назад

      Woke? Really? Ha-ha! Woke!

    • @kellywalker1664
      @kellywalker1664 3 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, the whole thing about 'sex is a spectrum'. Isn't it supposed to be 'gender'? Mr. B's trying way too hard for that strawman.

    • @jcamb72
      @jcamb72 2 месяца назад

      Bc he shows earth as a globe?

  • @Jeseppi-Lyre
    @Jeseppi-Lyre 2 месяца назад

    Drugs wear off in time. What you can do the brain in five minutes will not because it's not just a fix, it's liberating. Bravo, Maestro!

  • @hieunguyenrileygekko
    @hieunguyenrileygekko 3 месяца назад +1

    people make mistake all the time
    but smart people know how to make it convincing

  • @jossgower
    @jossgower 9 дней назад

    If you believe you are intelligent and go to a university you are likely to believe you would not fall something stupid. Which lowers your guard.

  • @beastoftalvar
    @beastoftalvar 4 месяца назад +2

    Thank you for this great video.

  • @Inbaroush
    @Inbaroush 2 месяца назад

    While this video makes some very valid points, its writer/s appear to fall into the very trap about which they're warning, in that, while "woke" culture is indeed detrimental in all the ways mentioned, the examples the writer/s use are equally flattened, albeit in the opposite direction.

  • @WilliamStaples-sw6vg
    @WilliamStaples-sw6vg 3 месяца назад +3

    The snarling delivery and anti-intellectualism signals demagoguery.

  • @BracaPhoto
    @BracaPhoto 3 месяца назад +1

    I got sooooo tired of hearing "your a smart guy, and because you're a smart guy... blah blah blah..."
    I had to literally rewrite code in my brain 🧠 ....
    I now want to be EFFECTIVE - NOT "CORRECT "
    That's the "CODE" that's needed...
    I went all the way to
    "RIGHT", is LEFT - "RIGHT" WRONG !!
    Best bit of data I've ever come across ! EFFECTIVE is the new mantra ... RIGHT doesn't matter... BALANCE ❤❤❤

    • @BracaPhoto
      @BracaPhoto 3 месяца назад

      I can now happily agree with either side of any spectrum when NEEDED ... When not NEEDED i can return to my version of LOGIC
      Completely interchangeable... Thank you Dad for passing on your Schizophrenia - it's a useful tool 😂😂❤❤

  • @DavisVlee
    @DavisVlee 4 месяца назад +4

    Fault ain't in the core of intelligence but the education system. Wisdom is being gradually replaced by knowledge. Your stuff is merely a mix up of things!

  • @tragedy_723_latviski
    @tragedy_723_latviski 4 месяца назад

    True. I lost my life due to delusions. I started believing I'm the God. Then stared into the sun to prove I'm the God but only burned my retinas and lost my central vision for life. Now I'm severely disabled and my life sucks so so so much.

  • @erv.shyseni
    @erv.shyseni 2 месяца назад

    Let’s respect each other’s delusions!

  • @mitchinoz3787
    @mitchinoz3787 3 месяца назад

    also: can we stop putting a questionmark after a statement and pretend that's enough to make it a question? You only needed to put 'do' after 'Why'.

  • @TheSoupier
    @TheSoupier 4 месяца назад +1

    Going to college makes me stupid. lol Meanwhile the statistics in math and science in the USA are staggering.

  • @Sarcasmarkus
    @Sarcasmarkus 4 месяца назад +2

    This doesn't seem to mesh with the dunning Kruger effect

    • @XXISecolo
      @XXISecolo 4 месяца назад

      Agree, considering that for dunning-kruger effect in general uneducated mind and not so bright ones tend to overestimate their understanding and their actual comprehension of things, clever, educated and sane minds keed doubts in their pocket!

    • @normanstewart7130
      @normanstewart7130 4 месяца назад +1

      Different effects but not incompatible, certainly not contradictory. You could say they're complementary.

    • @rachelsnijders817
      @rachelsnijders817 4 месяца назад

      The Dunning-Kruger effect applies to everyone, even if you're aware of how it works. The best thing you can do is to be curious, listen to other people and think about their ideas and opinions. At least that works for me, while I'm still short-sighted sometimes. Changing your mind about something isn't a sign of weakness.

  • @jennifermerva9538
    @jennifermerva9538 2 месяца назад

    Wow thankyou.👍😁✌️

  • @iamtruthseeker1
    @iamtruthseeker1 4 месяца назад

    You need to separate smart vs intelligence types of intelligence. SMART people memorize b.s. vs think deep & deducing what makes sense with support to back claims.

  • @notinterested8452
    @notinterested8452 4 месяца назад +2

    Sounds like you are intolerant of Yakub.

  • @jerrycapodilupo9195
    @jerrycapodilupo9195 3 месяца назад +1

    ❤ Too much faith in Studies and quasi evaluations. You show ignorance in your argument to show yourself intelligent. You are deceiving yourself....just like them.... WHAT IS DELUSION....????

  • @jayp8908
    @jayp8908 4 месяца назад +1

    Smart people trick themselves they're right because they're so good at debating, try playing chess against a good player, chances are they blunder multiple times and you need take advantage because their argument is so complex you fall for it😂 same concept.

    • @methadonematt7256
      @methadonematt7256 4 месяца назад +3

      There are many forms of being smart. Not all smart people like to debate. You're talking about people learning rhetorical devices and "winning arguments". I don't think most people who actually have exceptional intelligence have traits all over the board. That's a great generalization.
      A lot of the time it seems the smartest ones are actually the ones who stay quiet.
      It's a symptom of the dunning-kruger effect. I don't think being smart has anything to do with winning debates. I think that has to do with being a good debater

    • @BlacksmithTWD
      @BlacksmithTWD 4 месяца назад

      @@methadonematt7256 Intelligence is merely about how fast someone is able to learn something, not about what someone chooses to learn. Similarly a running competition may show who is the fastest runner of the competitors but it doesn't say anything about the direction this fastest runner will run to once the running event is over.

    • @methadonematt7256
      @methadonematt7256 3 месяца назад

      Exactly my point. You just put it in a more concise way with a little added. My point was to this person who was equating being intelligent with winning arguments. What I was trying to explain is that being an intelligent person​ had nothing to do a lot of the time with debates.
      It could If that is the intelligent person's goal and they choose to go that route and use their intelligence to debate. But like you said people have choices. This person was saying that smart people always try to win arguments and win debates. I was simply saying that there are a lot more forms of intelligence and a lot of intelligent people who choose not to debate.
      But yes we are agreeing. Maybe I didn't put it so eloquent.
      .@@BlacksmithTWD

    • @methadonematt7256
      @methadonematt7256 3 месяца назад

      ​​@@BlacksmithTWDoh I see why you put your last sentence on there. You must be talking about presidential stuff. Do you see? I wasn't talking anything about politics.
      But yeah if we're talking about politics then I see what you're saying. I was just talking about in general. As I've never voted in my life. Never been able to caught a felony when I was 18 for having a little piece of a pain pill in my pocket. Never been able to vote so maybe that's why our thinking processes were on two different stations

    • @BlacksmithTWD
      @BlacksmithTWD 3 месяца назад

      @@methadonematt7256 Na, I'm from a small country in Europe, we just had our elections last year. It's more telling about you to insist my comment to be a political one. I meant running competition as in the Olympics.

  • @scytaleghola5969
    @scytaleghola5969 3 месяца назад +2

    Two things can be true. Being obese can be unhealthy *AND* obese people can be the victims of bias.
    Really, you pretty much lost me when you used the term "woke ideology". This is a made up idea. Just a way of labeling people. There are two ways to look at wokeness (1) it is consistent with, "Do unto others..." and/or (2) it is consistent with behavioral
    economics.
    Remember: woke simply means aware of social injustice. If you are anti-woke, you are being intentionally ignorant of social injustice.

    • @HiddenBlade156
      @HiddenBlade156 2 месяца назад

      That’s a real manipulative statement you’ve made. Thanks for verifying the validity of this video for me, you useful idiot

  • @wardeggerrobertmarius144
    @wardeggerrobertmarius144 Месяц назад

    This video in itself is a good self-explanatory example 😂😂😂 how non inteligent people twist things to fit their beliefs 😂😂😂😂
    First of all it starts from the premises that those who are in a position of "academic authority" are all and always intelligent 🤣
    No, no, no buddy 😂 Being intelligent and at the same time closed minded and blind to evidence is impossible 😂😂😂

  • @pkilly126
    @pkilly126 2 месяца назад

    I watched a couple of your videos and I am majorly impressed by the depth and thoroughness of your research.

  • @Walter-os6ne
    @Walter-os6ne 3 месяца назад

    Free your mind and your ass will follow.All you need is love and your will follow.Get it.Yes,no,maybe.Check it out and be surprise.It's not rocket science.

  • @robertwester6939
    @robertwester6939 2 месяца назад +1

    no science veryifies this foolishness

  • @mauriceachach3351
    @mauriceachach3351 3 месяца назад

    Wow!!! A great piece.

  • @sebgur4401
    @sebgur4401 3 месяца назад +6

    Oh wow, I thought it would be an interesting video about psychology and it turns out it's just another idiotic conservative rant.

  • @susansparkle6812
    @susansparkle6812 2 месяца назад

    This guy is brainwashed.

  • @bvdswqawe11
    @bvdswqawe11 3 месяца назад +1

    that explains why religion ,a clearly fantastic system of thoughts and behavior has such a stranglehold on humanity.

  • @brotherabdullah
    @brotherabdullah 2 месяца назад

    Why Islam is the truth...
    Why we should not reject the reality of God (higher power) and Spiritual Guidance (Guidance sent down from the heavens...)
    ruclips.net/video/3_JcakBpoWA/видео.html
    Why Islam out of 4300 religions?
    ruclips.net/video/Hu7-vb7WNlY/видео.html