“Sometimes I like to sit and think about how every big thing started. Toothpaste, for instance. You’re telling me some guy came up with this blue #### that you’re just supposed to rub all over your mouth? What?
And yes, if you’re an intellectual or a scholar you might point out that people probably realized that mint helped their breath taste less bad, and a whole bunch of people just slowly followed and some smart guy took this new and trendy mint thing and created a “new and improved way” and then of course capitalized on it and then marketed it and then-
But that’s what you’d say if you were an intellectual or a scholar or someone just slightly too smart and just a bit of an #######. But you’re not, so instead you ask me what I’d do if I was in this hypothetical village with this (presumably) creepy old man going around handing out blue goop to put in your mouth. And I lean back against the tree, and you sit up a little straighter, and we both ponder the question.”
“Some people don’t understand how the world works. And some other people, you know the types, they think ‘Oh boohoo we gotta help ‘em so that everyone will be good and happy and rainbows’. Those people also don’t know how the world works. The only one who knows anything at all, is me. And don’t expect me to go around tellin’ everyone neither, I’m not like those other types. The idiots. I know that your loss is my gain, and at the end of the day that’s all I care about. Me, myself, and I. Look out for number one, no one else.”
“No one could be expected to publish a finding of what a neuroscientist is and expect it to be peer reviewed and revered for all to see- because clearly, people know what neuroscience is. A community known for checking and double checking credentials and references and peer review… a community that people trust to tell them the truth. You could argue that that’s why there’s no solid evidence that has any backing in the community. Nothing that concretely states what neuroscientists do and are, there weren’t even articles discussing what makes a scientist. But again- the lack of solid proof… until you look into if God is real. Then you can find articles. It’s fascinating that a community the public seems to look at in shades of atheism has more on the validity of God than what makes a scientist. A community that was once revered for their confidence and ability to stare death in the face, to turn fiction into reality- is stuck trembling from one question. What makes a scientist?”