‘Merica’s addiction to fake

[awty]

Well...good point.  I love, love, love my Harley boots in the cold weather but I don't own a Harley and didn't ride when my husband had one.

I didn' t like my riding boots in the winter....

Steel toed boots suck in snow.....

Snow isn't usually an issue here. The boots I have remind me of my jump boots when I was in the Army.  I didn't jump either, but the boots looked cooler than the regular ones.

[Angrboda]

Life is an obstacle course. If you make it to the end without dying, you win! What do you win? Eternal slumber.

[tackattack]

[awty]

[Neo-Scholastic]

And the (in retrospect bizarre) idea from the '60s that any sort of illusionism or subject matter in painting -- other than making the paint itself the subject -- was somehow fakery. He would have found that insane. 

Very true. Ruskin was not opposed to illusions so long as they were transparent and obvious.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Well...good point.  I love, love, love my Harley boots in the cold weather but I don't own a Harley and didn't ride when my husband had one.

I didn' t like my riding boots in the winter....

Steel toed boots suck in snow.....

‘Dress for the slide, not for the ride.’

Boru

[tackattack]

I'm 65 years old.  The fact that I am not an idiot and that I also learned through experience means I don't need a keeper.  
I understand what marketing is, thank you very much.
You underestimate me, sir.

I don’t underestimate anyone here. You said you’re not an idiot and I agree. It’s not about IQ though. Unfortunately, I’ve begrudgingly realized intelligent people can believe dumb ideas. All humans are to some degree intellectually lazy, irrational in decision-making, have multi layered confirmation biases, and other natural impulses that often obstruct critical thinking. Come on! On a forum of atheists no one has ever thought, “a lot of people are really stupid”?

I thought the prevailing opinion was that religious thought was heavily tied to anti-science / anti-intellectual beliefs. Colloquially, do we commonly perceive that people from other countries that are less religious are “smarter”?

[Belacqua]

Fair point we want what suits us, but when does the child that doesn't know better, not prefer candy for dinner? How can we know better when there is no truth in advertisement, news, life? 

And not just the child! 
The fact that we live in a post-truth society is bad for everybody.

[Belacqua]

I'm 65 years old.  The fact that I am not an idiot and that I also learned through experience means I don't need a keeper.  
I understand what marketing is, thank you very much.
You underestimate me, sir.

I don’t underestimate anyone here. You said you’re not an idiot and I agree. It’s not about IQ though. Unfortunately, I’ve begrudgingly realized intelligent people can believe dumb ideas. All humans are to some degree intellectually  lazy, irrational in decision-making, have multi layered confirmation biases, and other natural impulses that often obstruct critical thinking. Come on! On a forum of atheists no one has ever thought, “a lot of people are really stupid”?

I thought the prevailing opinion was that religious thought was heavily tied to anti-science / anti-intellectual beliefs. Colloquially, do we commonly perceive that people from other countries that are less religious are “smarter”?

I think people tend to overestimate themselves. No one is immune to propaganda, advertising, confirmation bias, etc. etc. 

Saying you live above all that just means you haven't recognized how deep we're submerged in it. To manage it wisely, you have to admit you're in it.

[awty]

I don’t underestimate anyone here. You said you’re not an idiot and I agree. It’s not about IQ though. Unfortunately, I’ve begrudgingly realized intelligent people can believe dumb ideas. All humans are to some degree intellectually  lazy, irrational in decision-making, have multi layered confirmation biases, and other natural impulses that often obstruct critical thinking. Come on! On a forum of atheists no one has ever thought, “a lot of people are really stupid”?

I thought the prevailing opinion was that religious thought was heavily tied to anti-science / anti-intellectual beliefs. Colloquially, do we commonly perceive that people from other countries that are less religious are “smarter”?

I think people tend to overestimate themselves. No one is immune to propaganda, advertising, confirmation bias, etc. etc. 

Saying you live above all that just means you haven't recognized how deep we're submerged in it. To manage it wisely, you have to admit you're in it.

I bow to your superiority....

...if for no other reason other than to make it easier for you to kiss my ass.