What if, say, all that we have known is actually wrong?

[tagos]

@begbert2

I dunno - some people seem to resist adaptation. Flat-earthers, anyone?

There are no flat-earthers. The Flat Earth Society isn’t serious.

We of the Flat Earth Society are willing to do what it takes to make our message known. We may have started small, but we’re branching out and earning the trust and following of lots of people. Although the steps we’ve taken may seem a little drastic to the outside observer, we feel that, in the end, the net gain will justify the means. Here are a few of our victories. . .

-----In the small town of Grass Roots, MO, one of our members has successfully infiltrated the public education system. By being hired on as a teacher in the district, she was able to gain a foothold that has allowed us to “replace” nearly every lower grade teacher in the entire town with loyal Flat Earthers. The students are now undergoing deprogramming measures and are expected to be released when they reach their mid-thirties.
Over a period of several months, over half of the workers in the Wisconsin state prison system were “relocated”, their positions filled by our associates. The list of replacements includes 7 guards, 957 cafeteria workers, 3716 Pepsi machine repairmen and 14 members of the clergy. With our operatives strategically emplaced, the convicts and felons are being given a healthy dose of “pro-Flat Earth” propaganda.
Success story: Upon escaping during a bloody shootout that left 19 prison workers and 27 prisoners dead, a reformed felon known only as “Rasp” went directly to a payphone and contacted our HQ. He is currently working in place of “retired” health-care worker Mr. Sonnovin at the Green Acres nursing home in Charlamange, WI.

-----After spending over sixteen million dollars and using over 48 thousand yards of industrial strength strapping tape, we of the Flat Earth Society were able to construct an enormously powerful neurotransmitter that can implant suggestions directly into the brains of the nearby non-Flat Earthers. Having set it up just outside of the Russian Antarctic exploration post (Vostok), we are awaiting word that all three scientists and 174 penguins have been shown the light.

[Boyo_Jim]

Well I know that’s a lie because Charlamange is speled wrong.

[Mangetout]

@thaelmax

I don’t think that would be necessarily true, because human has something called habit, that what you do everyday got imprinted onto your mind, and you would just continue to do it unless there is some intensive effort to change it, they would probably stay that way. It’s like when someone discovered time is not real, people would just move on .

The point is: if everything we know is wrong, how come it works?

(Also, if time wasn’t real, how could people ‘move on’?)

[devilsknew]

@Sailboat

The closest cases I can think of that might be analogous are people removed from cults or cult-like situations; children kept locked up and mis-educated by abusive or crazy parents, peons in re-education camps in places like North Korea, children of fanatics of various stripes (racist, religious, political, etc.).

Not the same thing, of course, but still, a broad amount of their “knowledge” of the way things work (socially at least) will turn out to be utterly wrong.

Of course, that presupposes that the indoctrination of these “cults” or groups is somehow less correct or “wrong” compared to the “standard” cultural indoctrination of the society or societies in opposition. Cultural indoctrination is kind of like an accent, everybody’s accent is funny except for yours… or “What accent? You’re the one with the accent.”