Unless you’re straight up trying to con someone, everyone thinks they know what they’re talking about. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be talking.
There’s a social element to a lot of this. People want to be seen and included, so they try to add what they think they know. And, outside of an academic setting (or a really boneheaded remark that’s easy to refute with a simple Google/Wikipedia search), who bothers to check this shit?
I call it pseudo-intellectualism. These people 100% think that they know exactly what they are talking about.
Unless you’re straight up trying to con someone, everyone thinks they know what they’re talking about. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be talking.
There’s a social element to a lot of this. People want to be seen and included, so they try to add what they think they know. And, outside of an academic setting (or a really boneheaded remark that’s easy to refute with a simple Google/Wikipedia search), who bothers to check this shit?