Trying to educate these people is a losing proposition because they won't listen no matter what you say or how much proof you show them.
While it's obvious they won't respond to the same standards of demonstration as us, and that is a losing proposition to try to uphold the latter even better in reaction to their closed ears, it isn't that clear to me there's no way to uproot them by defying their logic and conclusions while borrowing some of their own most basic assumptions -- by working over and on the gears of what you recognize from the outside as "willful ignorance".
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Trying to educate these people is a losing proposition because they won't listen no matter what you say or how much proof you show them.
While it's obvious they won't respond to the same standards of demonstration as us, and that is a losing proposition to try to uphold the latter even better in reaction to their closed ears, it isn't that clear to me there's no way to uproot them by defying their logic and conclusions while borrowing some of their own most basic assumptions -- by working over and on the gears of what you recognize from the outside as "willful ignorance".