It's ironic that every man I used to look up to turned out to be not quite as smart or honorable/honest as I thought them to be.
They're, in most cases, a lot more full of shit than I am, and the people that surround me.

It turns out that many people we consider heroes are merely fake mirages.
They are carefully crafted media personalities without any substance, not different from Santa Claus or movie heroes. However, since they're "real," we tend to build a cult following around them.

Now, with the advances in generative AI, we are going to be bombarded with lots of nonsense. So, there's an urgent need for well-thought-out mental filters.

I think I need to learn to appreciate more the people surrounding me, the real people who make this world work with all their imperfections, and not create idols.
Who is more important to me: a person sweeping the streets that I walk on, making bread I eat, or a guy "supposedly" sending rockets to Mars or performing self-help concerts for the masses?

Before putting someone on a pedestal, one needs to think about how this person affected my environment physically, not the "speech that transformed the world," but real, down-to-earth - was anything physically changed in my life because of what this man/woman created and how big of an impact it had?

When someone claims to state a scientific fact, we must either check the peer-reviewed proof of the facts presented or consider it unproven entertainment, like watching a movie. For example, you wouldn't call a scientific fact everything you watched in a Superman movie; the same type of thinking should be applied to all of the "scientific, business, psychology, self-help" content consumed on the internet. It's all entertainment until it's been researched or you saw and touched the thing in real life.

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It's ironic that every man I used to look up to turned out to be not quite as smart or honorable/honest as I thought them to be.
They're, in most cases, a lot more full of shit than I am, and the people that surround me.

It turns out that many people we consider heroes are merely fake mirages.
They are carefully crafted media personalities without any substance, not different from Santa Claus or movie heroes. However, since they're "real," we tend to build a cult following around them.

Now, with the advances in generative AI, we are going to be bombarded with lots of nonsense. So, there's an urgent need for well-thought-out mental filters.

I think I need to learn to appreciate more the people surrounding me, the real people who make this world work with all their imperfections, and not create idols.
Who is more important to me: a person sweeping the streets that I walk on, making bread I eat, or a guy "supposedly" sending rockets to Mars or performing self-help concerts for the masses?

Before putting someone on a pedestal, one needs to think about how this person affected my environment physically, not the "speech that transformed the world," but real, down-to-earth - was anything physically changed in my life because of what this man/woman created and how big of an impact it had?

When someone claims to state a scientific fact, we must either check the peer-reviewed proof of the facts presented or consider it unproven entertainment, like watching a movie. For example, you wouldn't call a scientific fact everything you watched in a Superman movie; the same type of thinking should be applied to all of the "scientific, business, psychology, self-help" content consumed on the internet. It's all entertainment until it's been researched or you saw and touched the thing in real life.

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