Michael Mitchell: Archive

Everyone's still missing the point.

You see me seeing you but I don't see you see me seeing you. So how can you know I know you know I see you?

That's the shit that's fucking everyone's head up. There's a missing event in the causal chain that can actually be replaced with anything imaginable. No one can process, much less consider or respond to all of those possibilities. No one can know everything everyone else knows before determining what to believe or how to act.

Assume no one knows that 2 2 = 4, for the sake of simplicity. Person A discovers addition and teaches it to Person B. Person B then teaches it to Person C but neither Person B nor Person C tells Person A. Person A then sees Person C knows 2 2 = 4. From Person A's perspective, Person C has discovered addition on his/her own without needing it to be taught by Person A or Person B. Person B and Person C, both frauds, then go on to teach it to Person D, Person E, Person F, etc. -- and Person A doesn't see the problem, that someone has failed to learn addition properly, until Person Z is teaching everyone 2 2 = 5, but it's too late to correct it because public opinion has already turned against addition because it's too complicated for average minds.