Lets set up a hypothetic situation. Take any random person, and lets say he or she is knowledgeable about one topic, or even two. Is this not how most people are? Don’t people tend to be better at particular things or have “specialties” in certain areas? Having said this, it is safe to say that most people are trapped in their own “limited realm” of information, or as the podcast “The Truth Is Out There… Isn’t it?” by WNYC, New York Public Radio calls it, as people having preconceived notions about certain things they already know or are familiar about. 

            Beginning with the first story about the Gullible expert being fooled in a Pansy Scheme, he is only limited to the area that he is the most educated about, which is the psychology about why people do dumb things. His brilliance in that area is what made him, but on the other hand it ended up hurting him as well. This also goes for the Newton comparison mentioned by the expert, “I can solve heavenly calculations (or something), but I cannot understand human nature (or something too)”. The point being here is, due to people’s lack of knowledge about certain areas, they may need to rely on someone else or some other source that is knowledgeable in that area they are not. 

            This paints the reality that everyone lives everyday. From the weather channel to the meat in the freezer, or even the educators of the world, everyone needs everyone else to basically be more "knowledgeable". If the weather lady says its 70 degrees outside, people just believe her, it not like they are able to disprove her. No one really knows what good meat or bad meat looks like, so there is a tag with a rating that someone made on the sticker. The reason why "knowledgeable" is in quotes is because most of the information that we know or take in is from other people. 

             Just think of any random fact that you learn, where did you get that information? A magazine article that someone wrote, something someone said on a TV show, maybe what a friend told you, whatever, people take queues from other people. Many people don't realize that without other people, they would not know anything besides what they see in front of them. 

            Take something as silly as gossip. Its not fact and its usually made up, but people believe it as fact. This is where the darkness casts its shadow on people. Unless individuals are scientists that analyze data to formulate a conclusion, no one really knows what the facts are, so, again, people rely on other people for information. 

            This relates to their idea about risks versus uncertainties. Given much data and information, risks can be calculated, while lacking knowledge about something becomes uncertainty. Within the realm of familiarity or what we are good in, we take risks because we know what most results will be. If we are not familiar with something, hence like Newton, we may need to rely on an outside idea. This is where people can be left vulnerable. 

            In a sense, most people have bits and pieces of the puzzle, but to fill the missing parts, or the uncertainty, people make this compromise of agreeing with something most people believe in, which gives them that sense of normalcy.

Then again, they also play around with this notion of the more knowledge you have, the more extreme your point of views can become. The more pieces you have the more you see the whole picture, therefore the point of this is the more you know, there are more variables you can use to formulate a solution.

What about the people who think they are right, but they can be wrong? This is where the alien guy comes into play. He basically proved that the idea of people having preconceived notions about something is very true. When someone truly believes in something, it is hard to convince him or her otherwise. As a result, if they were to hear things about that belief, they are already naturally biased as to how they will take in that information. They are already trying to anticipate what they want to hear, rather than if they are wrong or The Truth.

In conclusion, as I have mentioned over and over, people just simply need other people to learn more things or for help. No one knows everything, but people want to know many things. What do they do to satisfy that thirst for knowledge? They reach out to resources that are made by other people. Having these preconceived notions about certain things can keep a person from, really, expanding their mind. People need other people to know everything. In a sense, the whole world as a collective knows most of it all, but as the individual, they are restricted to what is already in their mind.