How Your Beliefs Change Your Reality

Daily Video 10/8/25

Instead of the example given, I also could have talked about the documentary, "Beyond the Curve."

If you haven't seen it, it's fascinating.

The movie is a study of flat-Earthers, the insanely dumb people who refuse to acknowledge the world is round.

Two things stick out while watching it:

1) The dumbos set out to prove they're right, and instead prove themselves wrong. And after proving themselves wrong, they double down. You read that correctly. They prove themselves wrong, and then double down on being wrong.

Kinda like farmers in the 2020 and 2024 election.

"Hey, Trump just bankrupted us with his tariffs, we should vote for more of that!"

(Look where that has them today.)

2) People just want to feel like they're a part of a community. No one likes being isolated, and flat-Earthers feel rejected by social norms, and thus band together.

It's not unlike studies of gang members: when the family unit doesn't provide a home, or sense of structure, they'll find it elsewhere.

Now, what no one understands is why these people find the worst of the worst to surround themselves with (gangs, flat-Earthers, political movements that don't care about them).

So, how do you change hearts and minds?

I've no clue.

Like many an internet stereotype, I went to high school with these shining examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and they seem to embrace willful ignorance with pride.

Which is why the only thing left to do is post pictures of puppies.

Every so often, they'll find their own way out.

Politician (not musician) Joe Walsh did it.

Many Swifties are admitting her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl isn't good.

So maybe there's hope for the flat-Earthers, MAGA morons, and far-left blue-haired land whales.

Maybe.