I was very on board with your comment until the Meyers-Briggs pseudoscience BS and then you lost me

I’m in the same camp, but wording it as “unable to assimilate new information” might actually help me have more sympathy for the willfully ignorant. That sounds awful to deal with.

I get you - and am the same. I hold little to nothing against someone unable to learn... but that's not what I am talking about. Imagine someone with an IQ of 50, who decides to pass themselves off as a doctor - you go in for brain surgery and, whoopsie, you get your event taken care of "at a reduced price". Nobody blames someone who is authentically stupid - and if that sounds bad, note that I include myself first among that category:-) - until and unless they step up and decide to become a LEADER. The latter carries with it a societal obligation to do better, than us mere peasants.

Put another way, if you are going to perform literal and actual and fully physical violence against an establishment such as the government of the United States of America (i.e. becoming one who acts rather than being acted upon), then you might want to start with actually reading the document that you are about to overthrow. It does no good to sleep with it under your pillow - you need to pull it out and actually READ it for it to do any good! Although many who were there have self-admitted that they have not in fact read it, even so much as once.

Likewise, more people died in the USA from the recent pandemic than all wars combined. Much of that was preventable, and quite frankly we don't even (nor will ever) know precisely how many are directly attributable to that, b/c those stats were deliberately fudged and forbidden to be counted. The same with school shootings - we counted at one point that there were more "mass events" (involving 5+ people) than there were calendar years, but the government is specifically prohibited from collecting this data, so once again we'll never truly know the extent, only lower-bound estimates (which are already shockingly high). Also people have already died from the ham-handed prevention of "abortion", that somehow includes cancerous masses, dead fetuses (from natural miscarriages) with necrotic tissue rotting away (but can't remove either b/c that could be considered an "abortion"), ectopic "pregnancies", and other life-threatening situations, which are nowhere close to the medical definition of "abortion", yet to the lawmakers (some of whom claim that babies cannot be produced from a rape - I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP - b/c "God has a way of shutting that whole thing down there in the case of rape") are too unintelligent to understand anything at all about what is going on.

However, nobody is that stupid, as to e.g. see Trump wear a mask, then turn around and claim to others that he does not wear masks. We have long ago crossed that line, from "stupidity" to "obstinacy". This is cognitive dissonance, yes likely imposed upon people from others (e.g. Putin), but also willfully held onto by many.

And here is proof: a video by Kurzegatcht that is only 11-minutes long that explains why people should take the vaccine. This is VERY understandable. Anyone who watches this would INSTANTLY understand the situation fully - and it's only 11-minutes long, so for something that could save a life, and possibly that of every one of your family members - is not too much to ask. And yet... people did not do it.

Moreover, much of the subject matters involved in all of what I mentioned above don't even need a video of even 1 minute to explain - e.g. to say that "kids getting shot in schools all across the nation" is... what is is again? good? no wait, bad, yeah, that's it, that's a bad thing!... right?!

That's not stupidity - that's stubbornness.

P->J completely inverts the orientations of the cognitive functions (Ti Ne Si Fe -> Ni Te Fi Se), it wouldn't reflect a singular change but a wholesale shift in how you take in and act on information (also J doesn't mean judgmental).

That's a launching point for a really interesting discussion, which I doubt you wanted so I'll cut it short. The gist is: do words have any meaning at all, and if so, is there such a thing as objective truth, and then shouldn't the former be reflective of the latter?

"Mammal" means something, and all the Reddit-esque "acktwually" aside, it means something different from "animal". But rather than say "thank you for the correction, yes that is what I meant, what you said", the implication being that we all stand together side-by-side in front of Truth, with those closer to it being the ones considered "correct", many instead would hold onto pride and say like "nuh-uh, I know you are but what am I?" One fosters a sense of community, while the other divides it into those who enjoy shitting onto others and those who (surely) enjoy being shat upon.

There is a saying that pride goes before a fall. And with planes having parts falling off of them inside the US, and literally falling from the sky into the ocean (that one off the coast of Africa, in at least one case), I'd say that we could definitely use more of the former where we consider 1+1=2 as a more worthwhile goal than "everyone is always correct, bc even if not, they surely meant to be and that's enough".

Of course if not, then surely you agree with me anyway, since I am responding to the meaning behind your words? ;-)

Or if still not, then you may want to block me, since I have a feeling you may not enjoy much of what I will have to say across the Fediverse.

lectured on semantics rather than responding to the meaning

this is ironic

But you can ignore the response if you decide to not deal with it