The internet, as the internet does, is handwringing about Gina Carano (who played Cara Dune in the Mandalorian) being let go by Disney, for divisive and false public social media posts. This got me thinking in general about some of the current flavor of “Modern Problems”, and I came up with a short list of (possibly) hard to swallow facts.
HARD TRUTH THURSDAY:
1. MLMs are not your "small business", and if you sell for one you don't "own a business".
2. Gina Carano was not a good actress anyway. But she was good at looking badass and standing around, I'll give you that. If she was lead in a series, it would have been a bad series.
3. "Free Speech" means the government can't punish you for expressing your opinion, not that other people have to applaud you for shouting terrible ideas in a public forum, or that companies have to keep you employed when you violate the rules you agreed to when you were hired, against shouting bad ideas in a public forum. Express controversial ideas in private if you don't want repercussions.
4. "Something seems fishy" doesn't discount peer reviewed studies and I won't agree that it does. Your poor instinct doesn't trump facts.
5. We as a species look for patterns where there are none. If you see a bunny in the clouds, that doesn't mean there's a bunny in the clouds. If you think you see a conspiracy with lack of true evidence upon inspection, then you don't really see a conspiracy. Stop guilelessly believing that the world is like the plot of a Dan Brown book because it's a more interesting story and easier to draw on paper.
6. Just because you can put together words and use oxygen talking about something that you don't understand, doesn't mean that the words you say have equal value to an expert who DOES know what they're talking about. Keep your mouth shut if you are trying to discredit things and can't prove it. It's exhausting and the same four people liking and agreeing with you, doesn't mean you're right. It means they are ignorant too.
7. Pick up a book. Turn off reality television. Don't listen to biased talk radio or 24 hour news. It affects your cognitive ability in an obvious way and it shows. ANALYZE.
And with that, have a nice Thursday :)