This is the issue i run into every day of my life. This is why i question people. This is why i have to ask just how many catfish fillets are in a ‘half-order’ of ‘all you can eat’. This is why i ask questions of people who claim that the United States is a ‘christian nation’. Or that claim that evolution is a ‘debunked’ idea.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2011132171_pitts21.html

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You see, like me, she can remember a time when facts settled arguments. This is back before everything became a partisan shouting match, back before it was permissible to ignore or deride as “biased” anything that didn’t support your worldview.

If you and I had an argument and I produced facts from an authoritative source to back me up, you couldn’t just blow that off. You might try to undermine my facts, might counter with facts of your own, but you couldn’t just pretend my facts had no weight or meaning.

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It is has been my firm belief,throughout my adult life, that no one really knows what the fuck they’re doing. The entirety of Western Civilization is built upon just keeping your head down and doing your job… there is no ‘uber kontoller’ who is either wisely or connivingly running the show from some mastermind’s vantage point. This is why i laugh at conspiracy theorists.

I know that in my personal and professional life, no one actual knows what they’re doing, yet we all manage to keep putting one foot in front of the other day after day.

In that vein, here is a wonderful article that articulates what it feels like to know that you dont know what the fuck you’re doing… and why thats actually not such a bad thing. http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing

To really understand how it is that no one knows what they’re doing, we need to understand the three fundamental categories of information.

There’s the shit you know, the shit you know you don’t know, and the shit you don’t know you don’t know.

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What if the secrets of quantum manipulation were actually quite simple? What if hyper-space theory and control were actually Iron Age developments?

I LOVE this short story by Harry Turtledove (“Eric G. Iverson”)*: http://textfiles.tonytee.nl/magazines/TANJ/tanj.070

I’d love to read more about this universe… heck, maybe even run a game based on it (i guess it might be like StarGate) or write my own stories in it. Just think, steam-punk, space travel, pirates and the Age of Exploration, as experienced by a modern-day human. Awesome!

*When Harry Turtledove first began to publish science fiction, his editor at Belmont Towers commented that he needed a more believable name in order to sell books. The editor suggested that the name be Nordic sounding and thus was born Eric Iverson. It should be noted, however that this same editor misspelled the pseudonym on the title page of Turtledove’s second novel, Wereblood.

Twenty publications later, Turtledove retired the Iverson name and began to publish under his own name The first stories published as by Harry Turtledove appeared in January 1986.

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