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@Chronic-Yonic He's an idiot, what else can you call someone like this.

there's a shocking number of people who just believe whatever they're told to believe.

The thing that is most surprising to me is the pride these people often take in blindly believing whatever their tv tells them to. It's one thing to be bamboozled by a massive, cordinated disinformation campaign. It's quite another to be a willing useful idiot of the regime.

@nicholas @sj_zero I can't understand it myself. Intellectual laziness? Gullibility? Too much focus on something like their career and spending no time at all to research and know where is the proof of what they read?

@HebrideanHecate @Chronic-Yonic Someone can be incredibly intelligent in their own very narrow field of expertise and a complete idiot outside of it.

In fact, after a lengthy career working mainly with people who were incredibly intelligent in their own very narrow field, I would say this is very, very common.

We need something akin to Dunning-Kruger (which is the phenomenon in psychology where the worse someone is at something in reality, the more they themselves think they're brilliant at it). In this case it would be where the more brilliant someone is at one thing, the more likely they are to talk shite across the rest of the board, while asserting their own brilliance.

Perhaps "Auto-Appeal-to-Authority".