Fool’s Courage, Moron’s Knowledge, Conclusions of the half-brained

You remember the saying “blind leading the blind”? There’s also a situation, where blind leads the seeing – into a bad decision. The way this happens, is that when one person insists that truth is as they see it, and a wise man understands how sometimes you cannot see a danger or a situation correctly – if someone claims they see something you don’t, it’s usually smart to pause and see what that’s about. HOWEVER, it is important to understand that sometimes people wholly believe things that are not true. It’s like trusting a schizophrenic on the Marsians attacking.

Moron’s Knowledge

Moron’s knowledge is a strong belief that isn’t based on facts, logic, or any reasonable basis, but wholly believes to be true. It contains things like “mother always knows best”, “all politicians are rotten”, “white men are rapists”. These things are not facts, but they are often presented as such as if there was no way for them not to be true.

Moron’s may “know” a whole host of things that are either not facts at all or are facts applied where they don’t apply. “Time bends because things move slower or faster in different areas in space.” Which should be the conclusion: “My husband hit a traffic jam on his way home”, or “that time fucking bends when you move slowly”? The less another person knows about the topic you speak about, the easier it is to apply moron’s knowledge and get away with it. Moron’s knowledge is also often applied when a parent doesn’t know why you should follow their advice. “You’re too young!” A fact or moron’s knowledge?

Blind Faith and Fool’s Courage

Blind faith is the faith that makes you jump off the roof because your voices told you you could fly. Or maybe we should relabel it to Millennial’s Confidence: No matter how stupid, or ugly you are, you can always be whatever you want to be, you just have to have faith! Blind faith makes people to stupid things, because they trust the voice in their head, take their mother’s word for it, and trust snakeskin-oil salesmen.

Blind faith is often tested by fool’s courage. Will you trust something blindly or not often is dependent on how big of a fool you are.

Projector’s Foresight

“Projecting” is a psychological term for people who believe their feelings are matched by another person. Whatever they feel or would feel in a situation, they believe another person would feel in the same situation: “If you marry this person, you’ll regret it later”. “If you go down that path, you’ll regret it later.” They’re essentially the doom’s day predictors because either they’ve been told that will happen and they repeat sentences like a parrot, or they’ve been through something and they believe everyone would react the same way to the situation they found themselves in. Most commonly, they married and had kids or decided not to, and now they regret it and think you’d do better for yourself if you chose the opposite of what they chose. Still, there are too many factors that predict the outcome of marriage and kids to decide whether you should follow in the footsteps of someone who made a mistake there by having them or not having them.

Morals of the selfish

Selfish people want to use morality in their bid to force another person do what is good for the selfish person, not the person they’re trying to persuade. “Bad people divorce their spouses.” “Monogamy is the right thing to do.” “You have to show love toward those who can’t have real love.” “You have to pay taxes so that I can afford to put my kids to school.” (Although I agree in principle, I’d say: “You have to pay taxes so the kids who have dead-beat parents can have a fair chance in life, too. They didn’t ask to be born into poverty.”)

This group of people will also use another person to have things for themselves: “You have to pay me for my spa treatment, my kids deserve a relaxed mother.” (“How about some therapy? I’ll pay for your therapy, asswipe. For your kids.” <- Note quotation marks. I am providing you therapy on this website.)

Self-Made Promises

There are people who interpret promises in action that weren’t really promised. That a marriage will last a lifetime because they were entered into and words were spoken. (Yet, over 50% divorce rate should tweak a person into the realization that marriage means essentially nothing.) People may feel that since they have been on a date once, twice, or trice, or had sex, they’re now exclusively dating that person when that person has never made any promises of exclusivity to them (and has “non-monogamous” written on their dating profile).

There are people who believe a normal, everyday, or usual event includes promises, and then, when those promises are not kept, they feel deliberately deceived. “But you are my father, you were supposed to pay for my clothes.” Or… “Because we had sex, you promised to be a father to our child.” (What about you actually promising you were on the pill?) “You are my daughter, therefore, you promised to love me more than anyone else in this world, and now you got yourself a husband?!” (Seriously. Some women.)

Or, how about this: “You call yourself a spiritual teacher, that means you’re a love-automat for the needy and desperate.” (Did you not see the 666-symbol?)

Conclusions of the half-brained

A person who is not… let’s put it kindly, not the sharpest tack in the box, is few cards short of a full deck, not the brightest star in the sky, not the shiniest lamp in the Christmas tree, or is one sheep short of a full flock… Gosh, I love these… Anyway, someone who isn’t entirely smart will draw conclusions that are not accurate. But because their logical functioning is not up to scratch, they may draw conclusions that are simply factually incorrect. Often, they base their ideas on the invalid variables (skin color to measure IQ), give them too much weight, and fail to take all variables into account, especially when they try to reapply their empiric conclusions in another person’s life that they don’t know enough about to draw a conclusion.

Because their ability to see variables is limited, they can project certainty prematurely, even when they are in the best intentions to help you. The Sun rises from the East and sets to the West. A conclusion of the half-brained or half-informed would then suggest Sun rotates around Earth. That is a premature conclusion that humanity took for a fact for a long time. Some other conclusions include non-facts such as “prostitution leads to drug use” (forcing someone or oneself to prostitution often does), “having children make you happy” (sometimes it does, it’s a wrong conclusion to apply it to all people), “if gay marriage was legal, everyone would gay marry” (speak for yourself; straight people have 0 wish to gay marry, FYI. Therefore, legalizing gay marriage is perfectly safe).

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