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I used to naively believe that education and more information will fix a lot of things in the world. People will want to study and think and they will be enligh
by christiansakai 6y ago
I used to naively believe that education and more information will fix a lot of things in the world. People will want to study and think and they will be enlightened.
I don't believe that anymore. For one reason, studying is hard, critical thinking is hard. Even with given free time and privilege (hello UBI?), most people will not prefer studying or thinking critically. They'd rather parrot things from the internet and the media around them.
- battery_cowboy 6y agoIt kinda makes me scared that we'll never figure out how to prevent the most ignorant of us from destroying us all.
- thinkingemote 6y agoIf it makes you feel any better and it shouldn't, right now and in the past many people have figured out how to effectively deal with "the ignorant". It basically involves death or camps, reeducation, exile, eugenics etc. The problem is not "idiots", the problem is thinking that other people are the problem.
- battery_cowboy 6y agoTrue, division is the real enemy of the people and it's hard to remember that fact everyday with the assault to your senses from the media about how people are doing bad stuff. Thanks for reminding me.