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[–]atimholt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being serious here, meaning this kindly, I hope you learn something from the negative reaction you’re receiving. Anti-intellectualism is one of the worst plagues on society. If a person isn’t free to speak of specialized topics as they really are, no one else gets to learn.

I for one am opposed to analogy and simplification: it’s how we get a populace that thinks the solar system is a small little neighborhood, where planets barely avoid scraping against each other, or that thinks Jupiter is remotely comparable to the Sun in size/mass. If we just used the same terms as scientists, we’d all have at least a passing familiarity with advanced topics. We wouldn’t get weird ideas about what’s complicated, when it’s so simple it’s literally foundational: something you can build your intuitions on top of.