Within the Sentinelese islands, and South America and Africa, also in many remote places in Afghanistan and India, there are villages that have never seen the outside world, and they have a villager's understanding of what goes on in the rest of the world; undeniably they have beliefs about the rest of the world that a lot of folks like us might think are silly.

A lot of people in America (and Western Europe, let's be real) are basically villagers themselves who can't fathom what's truly going on in the rest of the world; the people I mentioned in the beginning however don't have access to internet, the average American however doesn't have that excuse.

In those remote villages in Africa you have kids rubbing white people's skin to see if the whiteness is real, in America the average person is like "And they make the men have the same haircut as the supreme leader, and all the people think the Kims don't poop, and all the North Koreans think Kim Jong Un is a god, and they build theme parks for photo ops so all of us will like them, and"; it's like talking to a child but the child is a forty year old man and can vote for who the next globe threatening war criminal is.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The Average USAan considers the first thing they hear on a subject to be the Word of God and immutable

This is why they get mad whenever science updates their understanding of something

Pluto ain't a planet, dinosaurs had feathers and were probably chunky things, and gender is a spectrum

Gonna give some chud a conniption

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Within the Sentinelese islands, ... there are villages that have never seen the outside world, and they have a villager's understanding of what goes on in the rest of the world; undeniably they have beliefs about the rest of the world that a lot of folks like us might think are silly.

Whatever beliefs they have about the rest of the world lead them to shoot missionaries with arrows, so they can't be too far from the truth.

[–] Bolshechick@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, they know enough about the outsider world to know they want nothing to do with it, and they're real for that tbh

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Ironically what's happening outside looks a lot like what happened to them that led them to shun the outside world

CW: Epstein level SV

spoiler

An explorer who went there took some of their kids to his ship and had them strip nude for him to photograph them, and potentially do other awful stuff to them; they also saw their people across their islands catch diseases from these explorers that they were not prepared for and many of them died. So basically Epstein and covid happened to them; seems to line up with the outside world.