[csommers]

Cool story. We’d still believe the Earth is flat (some idiots still do) if we went by this logic and didn’t question the status-quo.

[Lammy]

Idiots == people who are questioning the status quo of their day?

[krapp]

If the status quo is trivially provable, and has been for thousands of years, yes.

[Lammy]

If it were trivially provable to these people they wouldn't question it.

[CyberDildonics]

I'm sure we all wish that were true.

There are people who have flown around the world many times who have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole.

Unfortunately the people who aren't confident they can actually learn about what they are afraid of, or correctly judge probabilities of things being true, spend their energy choosing who to believe instead of gathering information and forming a coherent understanding.

[ColanR]

Backwards. "Idiots" are the ones who do not question the status quo.