Originally posted on 03/06/2018:

Jibs is cognitively and intellectually lazy. I think he is smart but for too long he has followed the law of least effort, basically he is so used to putting zero thought into anything that certain parts of his brain have atrophied.

He’s your typical emotional, impulsive, shallow thinker type, very reactive, not very intellectual or academic. He’s prone to read nothing more than the title of an article and already have his mind made up on the subject.

He’s not alone, it’s a common phenomenon these days. And it’s not irreversible, he has simply fed his lazy brain and neglected the part of his brain that would normally do the heavy lifting.

Again, for a long time he has fallen victim to the law of least effort. It’s easy to have an opinion. It’s a lot harder to fact check that opinion, validate that opinion and defend it. That is the part of his brain he has neglected.

And really, he probably doesn’t even realize it, he’s not self aware because our brains don’t work that way. Very few people are truely introspective and self aware, it’s always easier to point out flaws in others thinking (or perceived flaws) than it is to admit you have a flaw in your thinking.

He has an opinion and because he is a lazy thinker, he comes to a conclusion impulsively avoiding logic to validate it, so he hunts for snippets to justify his position, basically the scientific method in reverse, or scientific method for dummies.

And he’s no different than most (Brooks, dwight, magaman, and many others here suffer from it as well), we’re all prone to these flaws and we’re all prone to being intellectually lazy, he just doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, he’s blind to his own blindness.

I think d2bets, Thor, Dante, Roy bacon, guitarJosh, even Kermit are great examples of highly intelligent and engaged individuals that defend their beliefs with logical arguments.

But overall he’s a good guy