Canary in the bullshit mine

How “skepticism” has fallen.

https://twitter.com/skepticCanary/status/1579552524344098816

You are what’s in your head, not what your body is. Could it be any more “spiritual” and religion-like? Thoughts determine physical reality; physical reality does not.

It’s all the more fatuous given the emphasis skepticism normally puts on how easy it is to fool ourselves, how difficult it is to see ourselves clearly, how prone we all are to flattering self and disparaging others (like “GC idiots” for instance). There’s all that, but on the other hand there’s also “if you like to fantasize about being a woman then you are a woman.” Puh-leeze.

If you are what’s in your head and not your body, then if you spend enough time fantasizing about being a cheetah or a crocodile or a hummingbird then you are one. Now what? Do we all have to buckle down to affirming all those exciting new idenninies? Install perches everywhere? Resign ourselves to being eaten?

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