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An overwhelmingly large (and growing) population of ignorant people who don't value critical thinking, learning, science, or anything but themselves and their i

An overwhelmingly large (and growing) population of ignorant people who don't value critical thinking, learning, science, or anything but themselves and their immediate desires.

rnernento 8y ago
I don't have a problem with this being downvoted, but I'm super curious what someone's reasoning for doing so is? I'm desperate for someone to convince me this isn't the case.
uxcolumbo 8y ago
I think you have a point it's also what I'm seeing, but I think it's not because most people choose to be ignorant. It's our system, which locks us into a work.eat.sleep.netflix&chill.repeat cycle. And if you have kids etc you just don't have enough time or maybe mental energy to then research all this after a long day of work. And some don't care, even if they have all the facts and are presented with solutions to avoid causing further harm. Tricky...
- rnernento 8y ago
  I know what you mean, I have kids and don't have a lot of time to learn about the things I want to. The thing is, people like that aren't who I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who will make no effort to learn about a topic, and then feel that their opinion on said topic is of the same weight as everyone else's (including experts). These people will then act/vote based on this opinion and act offended when it's questioned. This mentality is creeping into everything. I don't want to politicize this but lets use climate change as an example. Forget about whether or not climate change is real or not. Just leave the possibility that it could be, and could be a potential threat to the existence of humanity. Now, don't get caught up on who is right or wrong, just think about the overall quality of the debate that's currently occurring. It's not climate change that scares me so much as the quality of the debate. Eventually we will be faced with a very large problem and we don't seem to be in any shape to work together to fix it.

An overwhelmingly large (and growing) population of ignorant people who don't value critical thinking, learning, science, or anything but themselves and their immediate desires.

rnernento 8y ago

I don't have a problem with this being downvoted, but I'm super curious what someone's reasoning for doing so is? I'm desperate for someone to convince me this isn't the case.

uxcolumbo 8y ago

I think you have a point it's also what I'm seeing, but I think it's not because most people choose to be ignorant. It's our system, which locks us into a work.eat.sleep.netflix&chill.repeat cycle. And if you have kids etc you just don't have enough time or maybe mental energy to then research all this after a long day of work. And some don't care, even if they have all the facts and are presented with solutions to avoid causing further harm. Tricky...

rnernento 8y ago
I know what you mean, I have kids and don't have a lot of time to learn about the things I want to. The thing is, people like that aren't who I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who will make no effort to learn about a topic, and then feel that their opinion on said topic is of the same weight as everyone else's (including experts). These people will then act/vote based on this opinion and act offended when it's questioned. This mentality is creeping into everything. I don't want to politicize this but lets use climate change as an example. Forget about whether or not climate change is real or not. Just leave the possibility that it could be, and could be a potential threat to the existence of humanity. Now, don't get caught up on who is right or wrong, just think about the overall quality of the debate that's currently occurring. It's not climate change that scares me so much as the quality of the debate. Eventually we will be faced with a very large problem and we don't seem to be in any shape to work together to fix it.