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Peter van de Ven's avatar

Excellent. Socrates already said it millennia ago: I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either.

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Steve's avatar

The less you know, the more confident you are. And, unfortunately, people tend to use projected confidence as a proxy for accuracy.

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Peter van de Ven's avatar

And the more you learn, the more you see what the limits are of what you know, and can know.

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J McCauley's avatar

Thanks for a well written and nicely presented article!

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w.c. mallery's avatar

Don’t let anyone outside the family know what you’re thinking

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Pedantic Lady's avatar

Nice one FF! 👍👋

PS. What England Football Team? 🤔

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Krista Maddiss's avatar

Triggernometry = clarity over clickbait, truth over trash.

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Claudia von Ayres's avatar

I think you know a lot more than most out there. Candice Owen or any of these other click bait pundits are just like a barely legal getting her vag out on Onlyfans for clicks, likes and money. I believe people's opinions on touchy subjects like Ukraine and Israel are very personal and private, like noo-noos, naa-naas and wibbly-wobblies. I respect you so much for not doing a helicopter cock for Ukraine, or spreading your hairy cheeks for Palestine or Isreal for clicks, likes and the dosh.

The answer to all of this is going to be so simple. It is going to feel like we have been looking for something that's been right under our nose and it will take someone outside of all of this to point out, "It's right there mate. Are you bloody blind!?"

I was terrified about this wirl wind of rubbish coming from this little device. However, the more I have fallen down this rabbit hole I come to recognise it as the same old place I have always been. Things have been moved around a bit and I need to give myself time to adjust. It is the at a fast pace. However, I am the tortoise not the hare. So, stead as she goes and just keep going.

I am mainly worried about how this is going to affect my daughter. Most parents are worried about how to shield their child from this as long as possible. I am more worried about how am I going help my daughter overcome and prosper despite a potential addiction and overdosing on the device drug.

From my experience with addiction, creativity, activity and routine helped me get away for it all. I see this is away to help my daughter to one day have the ability to overcome a device addiction or something like it when she is older. I am using technology and devices to be creative. Rosey plays vidoegames but she is also learning how to creative games. I am learning digital art and animation to help my daughter to use technology as an outlet and not just as an inlet. I think that is the problem with the devices; too much going in and it not much coming out that is healthy and productive. We are creatures of tools. When the device is used as a tool then it is healthy. When it is used as dopamine hit or to scratch an emotional itch then it turns you into a tool.

I always love your writing. It is food for thought with, a twist. 😘👌

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Ruth  H's avatar

Back in the 1940-50's there was a popular song, "I know a little bit about a lot of things, but I don't know enough about you," a romantic song. Now we have a lot of people who know a little bit about a lot of things, but they don't know enough about most things. It is hard to know everything, especially in these days of so many so-called experts.

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Daniel Archer's avatar

New technology always takes a bit to settle in. Radio, film, the printing press all led to as much BS as good stuff. We teach people the good but skim over the bad. Like how they were showing KKK propaganda films in the White House during the Wilson years. The racist priest the had the most syndicated radio show during the depression.

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Andrew's avatar

The shortcut of choice has become who to believe, not what to believe. This compounds with the generalization, if someone gets something wrong, even a small thing, what else are they wrong about? I blame an education that teaches you what to think not how to think.

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Giles Brennand's avatar

Well all that is true.

Have you thought through the consequences of confessing that your only area of expertise is managing the England football team. There are millions in England with that expertise: and nearly all of them do so from the comfort of their own sofa. And when they are down the pub.

Seriously though, there is a problem with 'Experts' and 'Professionals', behaving as amateurs.

They have a moral, and in some situations legal, responsibility for how their advice is used. For example, when a politician mis-states, or misinterprets, or misunderstands information that they are given, a professional supplier should make every effort to correct the miscommunication, not only, but particularly, when the politician has quoted the expert as the source of the information. Politicians have the defence of ignorance, they can and do legitimately claim 'I did not understand all of that. I did not know that what I said was incorrect'. The expert has no such defence.

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