Kulturkampf

[benji]

One of the "tells" of those educated idiots I mentioned a bit ago, and Dr. Meza is one, is often the way they talk about quantum physics. They've only heard about Schrodinger's Cat and extrapolate from there to confirm their stupid social science ideas based on believing that the observer effect requires a sentient being and thus places all of reality in the hands of individuals to determine. This is taken as "proof" that their dumbass shit is scientifically proven. This was the original critique from Sokal and it's still all over social science work. Cite "science" with something like "the observer effect is proof that awareness effects systems" and then "confirm" your stupidity "which proves that me tweeting all day is the highest form of anti-capitalist action." (The Sokal original was them taking a misunderstanding of physics as proof that all of science is just political violence forcing others to determine what's "true" in science absent of anything but the political violence.)

More humorously, the Before Watchmen comic for Dr. Manhattan has Dr. Manhattan making this error despite being the world's greatest physicist who then literally merges with reality.  The rest of it is premised around how him observing events must be changing them, dumbass JMS like most "understanders" never took the time to ask why none of the other characters observing the same events wouldn't do this against his will. This is typically the answer most of these people, especially self-proclaimed "progressives", come up with, that reality is determined by the greater will.