Interview With An 87 Year Old Farmer (1929)

If my tone was insulting I apologize. I am angry though, you're right. I'm watching the predictable cycle. A similar anger after 9/11 because of the tragedy but also because I knew it would be exploited to erode our freedoms, and lo, I was right (I'm not special, lots were warning this would happen). Same here. People are ignoring the research that highly punitive retributive justice systems don't work, and reformative justice systems do, because of some combination of yellow journalism and cognitive / rhetorical fallacy. > Studies are not the arbiters of truth. Certainly not all truths, and I agree with you that we can't expect people to fact check literally every aspect of their lives. However, your flat earth example is fantastic, here's why: the earth being flat is common sense. If you don't fly (many people) and have never seen the ocean (many people), don't think much about orbits or astronomy, why would you think the earth is round? There's a reason flat earthism is so popular, it really does "make good horse sense." Grant me for a moment that to believe the earth is flat in 2023 requires believing in a massive global conspiracy, maybe instead let's consider a detached farmer in 1920. How about this guy: [this video] . Consider what's necessary to know with certainty that the earth is a globe, and consider how they disagree with "common sense." A flat earth would allow for seeing all the way to the end of it, right, so since you can't see all the way to new York city from h