Political Memes

This is obvious bait, but I'll bite a little.

The real experts, that sound the alarm and call us to action, are largely silenced or ignored. These people are not in leadership or positions that hold any meaningful power or influence. Our actual leadership is mostly unqualified and playing team politics and tug of war while nothing gets done and the plane crashes.

Can you blame people for raising their hands and suggesting that the pilots, who are crashing the plane through their apathy and inaction, be removed?

Direct democracy would be a wonderful concept for humanity to explore. And the experts who are on the side of progress should be allowed to spearhead initiatives to solve the various crises our species and planet faces.

I grew up poor in the southern part of the USA. Anti-intellectualism is a core tenant of most of the common religions in this region, which trend heavily towards evangelical christianity. One of my earliest formative memories is being called a "Scientologist" and getting condemned to hell because I believed in evolution. Lots to unpack there, I know.

On the other hand, I somewhat regularly get accused of using AI to write my comments/replies on various social media platforms, something which I have absolutely never done. Simply writing in my typical style, even with all the poor grammar and misspellings, is enough to make all the Dunning-Kruger mother fuckers crawl out of their basement long enough to make accusations against me.

I don’t think it’s experts were tired of, but rather arrogance. For me it’s doctors who ignore my symptoms because my test results are within “normal range”. My favorite was the time I had a doctor tell me she thought it was all in my head and I needed to see a therapist.

Time for this old thing again:

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

― Isaac Asimov

Remember when people liked Trump because he's "Not a politician"

The Media failed, plain and simple, they lifted up Trump because he was good for ratings. In reality they should have fucking grilled him.

Not a single person bothered to ask what he thought made America great.

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

We've reached an unfortunate point where nobody really knows how the plane works any more, and steering to the left takes longer than an election cycle.

You can definitely plough it into the ground like a fucking dart though.

I have thousands of hours across multiple flight sims. I'm confident in my ability to fly a plane. Just don't make me land on an aircraft carrier... I always fuck that shit up in Top Gun on the NES.

I think a good point related to this was made by a YouTuber called Atun-Shei Films. In one of his Q&A videos he talked about this emphasized the problem is that experts need to get better at communicating with the public in an engaging way. Otherwise you end up with experts who scoff and tell you to just trust them when you ask questions about why they recommend certain things. And that's the space that anti-intellectual people will fill and provide their own opinion but can communicate it in an engaging way. It's definitely not fair that you both have to be an expert at something but also have to be good at communicating it but that's the reality we live in at this point.

Americans are the passengers and they elected the 9/11 hijackers and is celebrating "Liberal Pilots oWnEd 🤪" meanwhile the skyscrapers are seen outside the window.

I swear, this is the only time i hope you don't get what you expect. It would be awful to have these kinda folks among us.

Edit: i mean like the one in the comic. Unless he's a pilot, a good pilot and everyone on that plane knows this.

The door to the cockpit is locked. If there has been a discussion or if there is just this vote, the powerlessness of those regular passengers shows that anti-intellectualism is an isolated problem. It only looks dangerous to those who don't remember the locked door.

Not my fault every intellectual I meet just hides their tiny penis behind big words and rote memorization. Excuse me if I aint fuckin' impressed.