Only the ones that are true

I asked him, okay then, what do you do with whatever info you find out?

he barks out, "tell people".

and I said, "who?"

it was at the point, I saw in his eyes, that his brain was starting to short out.

"people, that's who!"

I gave him the , "uh huh, gotcha". Rolled my eyes and walked away. he was babbling about people have to know etc.

I work with a lot of engineers and they all fall into a few groups. 1) the good ones, 2) the bad ones that think they are good (those are the worst) and 3) the fucking crazy ones.

he was in that 3rd category, which I had known long before this conversation.

I can probably count on one hand the engineers I believed were truly mentally ill. One instance involved an electrical engineer trying to get power to a welder by shoving cables into the solid copper ‘bus bars’ in the back of an electrical distribution panel. Bad as that was, this panel was on the wall of a large break area, and people were in there - running from sparks and likely droplets of molten metal. I saw it from a distance and rerouted my stroll.

They are on the F-ing Nuts Spectrum.

Like I do.

"They suggest that rather than just providing facts, solutions should focus on helping people manage uncertainty and addressing their underlying sense of powerlessness. "

hatched for one reason: Lack of transparency in Government.

I have seen too much of actually sleazy manoeuvring to entirely agree. There is a lot of reason to distrust society and have a sense of injustice. It is how you decide whom to trust and why.

I trusted Fauci for instance. But even Fauci is humans are fallible. I don’t trust Zuckerberg however much he invests in medical research.

This is a little reductive especially given the last 15 years. I can’t say that the vapidly happy worldiview of corporate America’s shills or Steven Pinker is anything but inane.

Given mass incarceration and many other such things, a sense of injustice is to be expected. How you allot blame is where you have to assess reality and be ruthless as needed, but careful as well to avoid any collateral damage.