{"id":6049,"date":"2019-12-14T02:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T02:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2024-07-17T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:16:09","slug":"pretending-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/pretending-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretending to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  I thought further and said: \u201cWhy do men lie over problems of such great importance, even to the point of destroying themselves?\u201d And they seemed to do so because although they pretend to know all, they know nothing. Convinced they know all, they do not attempt to investigate the truth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ethiopianphilosophy.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/23\/treatise-of-zera-yacob-chapter-iv\">Zera Yacob, 17th-century Ethiopian philosopher<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we\u2019ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We\u2019re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It\u2019s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we\u2019ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Carl_Sagan\">Carl Sagan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought further and said: \u201cWhy do men lie over problems of such great importance, even to the point of destroying themselves?\u201d And they seemed to do so because although they pretend to know all, they know nothing. Convinced they know all, they do not attempt to investigate the truth. Zera Yacob, 17th-century Ethiopian philosopher&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/pretending-to-know\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,6,378],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness","category-philosophy","category-psychology-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1zz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6375,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}