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Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.." - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
In this episode we discuss the "surrounded by idiots" fallacy.
By Faraaz Kaskar & Tanwir DadarkarOcchiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.." - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
In this episode we discuss the "surrounded by idiots" fallacy.