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This was the naive communism idea, that you can mold people into any shape you desire with enough education, propaganda and other forms of societal pressure. T
by alexashka 6y ago
This was the naive communism idea, that you can mold people into any shape you desire with enough education, propaganda and other forms of societal pressure.
There is science that tells us otherwise. If you're a midget, you cannot ever be successful in the NBA.
People's brain regions vary up to 10x in size and some people have regions that are completely absent in others, oops. Some people can see 10x more colors than others. Some people can do mathematics, most can't. Sorry.
Ok so we have people with vastly different abilities, people are not equal. What do we do with this information? We need to figure out who has which abilities. How do you do that? You scan their brains :) Now what happens when we find out half the billionaires have tiny worthless brains and got lucky (every Russian billionaire as one simple example)? What happens when rich people have idiot children who are only good for serving coffee?
There lies the rub - you have to want power-responsibility ratio to match ability, more than you want your offspring to have power regardless of their ability to handle responsibility. You have to fix corruption on the level of enabling idiot family members because they're yours. You have to fix enabling your friends because they're your friends. You have to understand that an idiot would be better off serving coffee more than going to a top university, cheating their way through it and being a worthless manager with a high paycheque.
You have to not be an idiot to understand these things. How do we have more non-idiots? One easy way is to monitor who has children. Ohh but freedom I can do what I want with my body?! That's your selfish idiot brain talking that doesn't take responsibility into account. See how deep this goes? Every facet of modern society ignores responsibility. The fix starts with people like me talking about it and being treated with downvotes from the idiot masses :)
ps. If you want a more thorough treatment of responsibility and how important it is, I've heard good things about Jordan Peterson.
- andrekandre 6y agothats an intersting way of thinking about it, but one has to be careful not to attribute eveything to genetics lest we fall into biological determinist thinkimg about eveything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_determinism