5 daysOn what?
Different people have different bodies of knowledge and experience. Their expertise on one question doesn’t transfer to another.- 5 days
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.
- slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
That OP always has an agenda. Doesn’t matter which OP but there is always one.
- 5 days
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.
- 3 days
Only 3 people i dont know whos opinions ive actually trusted.
Yahtzee but I think hes stopped doing his thing
Jonathan Pie - spoof news reporter who goes on rants at the cameraman between takes.
All 3 of these people have almost exactly the same opinions on things I already know about and think I understand. I trust them enough to have the right opinion on stuff I dont.
- 3 days
When Penny Arcade used to do the “We’re Right” awards, I always looked at them for games that I’d missed during the year, and I was never steered wrong.
- 3 days
Yahtzee is still doing the same thing on a new channel called Second Wind. His new show is called Fully Ramblomatic and it’s basically no different from Zero Punctuation.
- 5 days
You agree Africans should starve for some Malthusian nonsense?
- TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish5 days
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.
- c64z86@piefed.worldEnglish5 days
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.
- 5 days
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.
- c64z86@piefed.worldEnglish5 days
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.
- 4 days
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.
- c64z86@piefed.worldEnglish5 days
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.
- 5 days
Except it runs counter to all evidence but whatever use your biased “personal observations”.
- 5 days
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?
- 4 days
Mine. Unless my partner or best friend heavily disagree, then I know it’s probably not right.
