To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, all humans have misconceptions, and many people will always mistake these misconceptions for the truth. These misconceptions arise from the battle between the spiritual and material inner nature of humans.
Jean Jacques
Rousseau said that “we have misconceptions not because we think illogically but
because we live our lives badly.” He believed that ignorance could not lead to
evil, misconceptions do. “It’s not what people do know, it’s what they pretend
that they do.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
argued that “every misconception is a poison: there are no harmless
misconceptions.” The purposeful poisoning of the mind is very real.
Tolstoy
believed that freeing human beings from misconception is a charitable act that
cannot be compared to acts of mercy such as feeding the hungry, giving clothes
to the needy, or visiting someone in the hospital when they are sick.
Misconceptions
are often accepted as truth and the person holding that misconception does not
bother to search for its veracity or falsity. Misconceptions are generally false,
and they arise from conventional wisdom, stereotypes, superstitions, fallacies,
misunderstandings, and a lack of understanding science.
You could
call misconceptions ‘factoids’ delivered by ignorant of “fact checkers,” who,
in a purposefully deceptive manner, disperse political opinions covered with a
veneer of truth. Disinformation leads to misconceptions because that was the
intent.
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