• BitOneZero @ .world@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    he’s popular as a speaker for a reason

    I think he has a natural talent to listen to what gets a rise out of people, what gets a reaction, and then copy that in his own way. What he says, once transcribed to written form, is often not very intelligent. It’s his mannerism and even his unique makeup and hair - that people listen to far more than his actual meaning. I find people who think Trump is a great person often have serious difficulty interpreting and understanding hard sciences like chemistry and physics… and are influenced by advertising techniques in particular ways.

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      1 year ago

      You overestimate them. Simple-minded folks have serious difficulty reasonning about any concept that require you to either :

      1. Think of an abstract concept.

      2. Hold and evaluate a thought they don’t agree with

      3. Any sort of application of logic and critical thinking requiring you to evaluate more than 1 or 2 elements in serie.

      Their mind reset after making 1 “logical” deduction. Leaving them unable to evaluate both premises and arguments, or abstract concepts, or hold contradicting thoughts for evaluation, or any sort of concrete mental modeling of anything but the simplest cause to effect situations.

      In that sense, the dumbest amongst us are not just incapable to do sciences, they can barely comprehend the very simple things surrounding them. They survive by gut-feeling, learned patterns, groupthink, and are driven by emotions (since it is all they have).