While talking with my friend Andy over Skype. While doing some homework we started discussing what I should blog about, because frankly I am out of ideas for today. So we came upon the issue of breaking somebody's trust in their knowledge.
When a person believes that something is fact or true it goes unquestioned until challenged by another. When this other person challenges this knowledge some immediately reconsider what they know based on the background of the knowledge and their way of knowing this knowledge. To what standard of knowledge or how "smart" does someone have to be for an individual to change their mind on something they believed to be fact? What qualifications does this person have to make this person question themselves? Does the other person even play into this effect, or does the only persuasion come from the insecurity of the person? Or in total is this just in some ways misinterpreted when the person is just striving to learn the correct knowledge?
So lots of questions about my question I am just curious on a personal level why some act the way they do.
I posted something similar to your point, involving how our clock could be off for our whole life and not know it. If one is delusional, they go their life believing things that are not true but are perceived as such.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, your post reminded me of an episode of The Big Bang Theory in which Sheldon (who hates change and believes himself the smartest alive) discovers that his favorite Chinese restaurant had actually closed down without his knowledge and that all along he had been eating food from a restaurant he hated, leading him to question, "What is real? What is not? How am I to know?" Disillusionment is a scary thing.