I'm pretty annoyed with the whole anti-science crowd. Any serious mention of astrology, natural healing, flat earth, etc. garbage sends me to the moon. I remember being a kid and realizing adults were dumb, but I didn't expect my generation to be just as dumb as the previous generation of adults.
I went on a date with a hipster a little while ago and she noted that she had studied astrology for years. I tried to play along, but the whole thing was just absurd.
I was bullshitting with some random woman in the coffee shop the other day and she started in on how she didn't trust "Western medicine" and was now going to a natural healer. I didn't even know what to say to her. I just kind of froze.
A year ago, some adult man at the cafe went in on how the world was flat. For serious, he thought he was "woke" because he now knew the "truth." I asked him why anyone would lie about the world being round and he said, "To take away our religion." I looked at him and said, "You're Catholic. The Catholic Church has no qualms with the sun being the center of our solar system and the world being round," but my comment fell on def ears and he started in on some "experiment" he saw on Youtube.
How do we have free K-12 education but so many people believe the absolute dumbest shit? How has critical thinking become a code word for arrogantly believing in pre-Enlightenment nonsense?