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Jun. 13th, 2019 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahari Post I just saw on Twitter: “A lot of skeptical-type people are weirdly better at detecting when facts are being used misleadingly than they are at asking ‘wait, is this just completely made up?’”
I think this is supposed to be some kind of dunk, like “look at how silly those skeptic people are!” And as someone who is much, much worse at identifying lies than at identifying misleading use of truths, that honestly pisses me off. I think my difficulty recognizing lies is related to my inability to read facial expressions, and my problems with remembering visual information, and all the other stuff brains are supposed to do that mine can’t. It’s not some kind of character flaw that I could easily fix by just trying harder!
I think this is supposed to be some kind of dunk, like “look at how silly those skeptic people are!” And as someone who is much, much worse at identifying lies than at identifying misleading use of truths, that honestly pisses me off. I think my difficulty recognizing lies is related to my inability to read facial expressions, and my problems with remembering visual information, and all the other stuff brains are supposed to do that mine can’t. It’s not some kind of character flaw that I could easily fix by just trying harder!
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Date: 2019-06-27 11:25 pm (UTC)“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
“It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.”—Adolf Hitler
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Date: 2019-06-27 11:34 pm (UTC)I always passed it up to my kind of mental illness, which means my grip on reality isn't as good as other folks, but I definitely know that even when someone obviously, blatantly lies to my face and I have the hard numbers to prove it, I still find myself going, "that can't be right... surely they wouldn't... would they?" It's really disorienting, for me anyway!