- 16 hours
Mine. Unless my partner or best friend heavily disagree, then I know it’s probably not right.
Honestly, it depends on what we’re talking about
I trust my nerd friend’s opinions on computers, and I trust my car friend’s opinions on cars, but probably not so much the other way around.
No single person knows everything, and trusting any single person completely about everything is foolish.
1 dayOn what?
Different people have different bodies of knowledge and experience. Their expertise on one question doesn’t transfer to another.- slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
That OP always has an agenda. Doesn’t matter which OP but there is always one.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish22 hours
In general my brother. He has schooling equivalent to my own and we both have interests and specialties that can converge a bit but also complement each other. Basically I like to discuss things with him because he both can get things im talking about but also may have a perspective or knowledge beyond my own. I think he feels the same but who knows. He seems to call me to talk about things as much as I call him.
This!!1
Looool reddit moment
Please let me give you poor mans gold 🏅
Edit: oh my god already 4 downvotes!!1 can’t believe it
Yes that’s indeed where the refrence comes from, thanks for the insight big dawg.
- 1 day
I trust the opinions of open minded and wise scientists the most. The people that should IMO have been our leaders instead of self serving politicians.
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Disagree we should have no leaders and how do you define “open minded and wise” and how do you prevent scientists promoting something like eugenics again.
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We will always have leaders in some capacity. We are too wired to lead and to follow.
Based on archeological evidence, humans lived in horizontal egalitarian societies for most of our existence. It’s only relatively recently that we have deviated from that norm and began to live under hierarchical, unequal societies.
More recent history has demonstrated that we can quite easily return to a non-hierarchical society, and quite successfully.
This seems to prove that we are just as wired for no leaders as we are for leaders, and we can choose which path we want to take. Currently, it appears that the leader path virtually always leads to corruption, control, and capitalist fascism, which is ultimately incompatible with a habitable planet/biosphere, so uh… I think we should take the other path, maybe.
- 19 hours
Weren’t elders/shamans/gurus looked up to as sort of spiritual and worldly advisor/authority figures back then? Granted, it’s not the same as being a chief/leader, but they talked, and their community listened and generally followed their advice.
As you say, a collective of people asking an elder for advice and collectively making a decision on it is quite different from being ordered by a leader and forced to follow it.
Experts in specific fields are still looked to for advice and help in a egalitarian society, there just isn’t a rigid hierarchical structure that makes them have more institutional power than anyone else. As an example, in revolutionary Spain, there was still a need for doctors, electricians, train operators, farmers, etc, but they no longer had a boss they had to listen to, they were able to self-organize whatever they thought would meet the needs of their society best, and those not skilled in those areas deferred to their knowledge and experience for situations that fell under it.
This was documented quite thoroughly in Sam Dolgoff’s book from 1974, The Anarchist Collectives Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939, along with Gaston Leval’s 1975 Collectives in the Spanish revolution, if you’d like to investigate the specifics.
- 1 day
Yeah, it’s called an opinion. An opinion which is formed from my own observations. You can take it or leave it, but I’m going to keep saying it.
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Except it runs counter to all evidence but whatever use your biased “personal observations”.
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Do you have a source for “all evidence” that humans are not actually “wired to lead and to follow” or that human society is functional on a large scale without having leaders in some fashion?
- TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish1 day
Hank Green, and Alec from Technology Connections. Wildly different energy levels, but broadly speaking I trust them to do their homework or to outright say they haven’t.
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You agree Africans should starve for some Malthusian nonsense?
- Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish1 day
I don’t trust anyone’s opinion unless it’s based on sound evidence and repeatable results and even then, I’ll only trust the opinions of those who are willing to change their opinion based on new knowledge. So, given that, I’ll trust my young kids opinions on things they have researched and learnt about, or a doctor’s opinion if it’s on something they’re knowledgeable about, and my own in areas where I’m an expert.
How MUCH I trust them is a different thing. If it’s something that doesn’t really affect me if it’s not 100% accurate…meh
