“You just think you know it all because you’re so young.”
No no, I’m still just as cocky of a motherfucker and I’m approaching 40.
it really is for the best. reject gnosis, embrace uncertainty
That’s because they refused to explain it. There’s no secret knowledge that activates when you hit 13*, someone has to teach it to you.
*) Well… Except for that, of course.
You now understand that they were lying when they said that, to seem smart, and get you to shut up.
Tada!
I’m older but all I understand is that things just keep getting worse and that I’m way too stupid to be smarter than this many people.
It’s weird, I’m the same age as old people but I don’t feel old… Except when I try and get up or down, I feel that 😕
If anything, I understand less.
Having passed our teenage years atop mt. stupid, we’re firmly in the valley of despair.
That is not the dunning-kruger effect
Next you’re going to tell me that the quote in the OP wasn’t actually said by the pictured Opossums.
Will the illusions never end?
C’est ne pas une pipe.
I know what you mean, they never put any graph remotely like that in their paper. But couldn’t not do the reference.
Stupid people are confident they know everything, while smart people understand that they know hardly anything.
Hmm, I am always right but seldom correct?
Not only do i understand nothing, but at least when i was younger i was ignorant to that.
You could argue i understand even less now.I’m older and I understand that my optimism for the world, our species, and my assumption that people are basically good were all total bullshit.
Congrats, now you understand.
