Assertion Supposition Syndrome
Throughout recorded time people have held onto ideas and beliefs long after the ideas have been proven wrong. The psychic enforcement of superstitions and the consequences thereof have been piling up for millennia, as well as the more obvious cultural and political piles. These assertion piles are not new, however with continuous suppositions piling up they can become overwhelming and prevent understanding. The very word understand implies we must clear the pile of assertions and suppositions.
The piles of assertions and suppositions are not new, our access to information related to all subjects and objects is new. We are in the information age, now hyper modified by AI and potential quantum technology.
We could forgive and provide sympathy for people who let the piles take over their lives in any other time past, but today it is questionable and marks delusion flaws rather than adaptive humanity. To fall into the pattern of doing so is Assertion Supposition Syndrome, a state of insistence and imaginative ideation in which one piles new suppositions onto an assertion which has been proven wrong or illegitimate in order to maintain belief system dependent on false assertion.
Science as a modality of thinking seeks to crush Assertion Supposition Syndrome, A.S.S. Yet scientism on the other hand would be supported by those presumably in a state of A.S.S.
The only way to become intelligent is to remove stinky ideas with appropriate fresh ideas, to be rid of assertions and not to build suppositions from a corrupt falsehood. Intelligent people appreciate being proven wrong so they can remedy their perspective, and thus be more approaching right and true. And yet if you have A.S.S. all that goes down the drain.
People with A.S.S. vehemently hold their beliefs even after being proven wrong via multiple streams of facts and principles. Proverbial echo chambers become so solidified that new annunciations of the original stink are pronounced in the said echo chambers, or bubbles. New and even more wild suppositions are stacked up as if on the proverbial manure pile and reality, truth is obfuscated by the propensity of preposterous.
The old assertion stinks and new suppositions have to stink in line with old assertions. New suppositions are stacked onto old assertions in order to maintain the idea structure of the original pile. A.S.S., as expected, ultimately results in an eventual olfactory blindness due to immersion in seriously stinky ideas and the adoption of wild suppositions is no longer even sensed. And A.S.S. is not limited to one or another perspective, like all the variations of scientism.
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