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Continuity, truth, being able to learn and reason from published facts from verifiable sources. The ability to operate a machine without understanding its inne
by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Continuity, truth, being able to learn and reason from published facts from verifiable sources.
The ability to operate a machine without understanding its inner workings, and also the ability to crack open a book and repair said inner workings when necessary.
Convince a nation that they don’t need to teach their children to read and you’re on course to be able to undo the progress of centuries (if not millenia) in just a generation or two.
- phoe-krk 3y agoWhat exactly do you mean by "continuity"? The concept of "truth" has already been discussed widely, to the point of the term "post-truth world" being coined. Why learn, why reason from published facts, how are these necessary? People can learn from one another without any written instructions, which is how tacit knowledge is often transferred; why would one need to read to learn how something works if they can just get trained by someone else? Why do we need a global skill to read in order for the progress of centuries to be globally available? As long as some people, let's say a "caste" of those being able to read, retain the skill of doing so, why wouldn't we be fine with the rest of people consuming television and YouTube?
- electric_mayhem 3y agoYou’re giving humanity one last chance to talk you out of your plan for global domination, aren’t you? C’mon, dude. Let us keep our books.
- fifticon 3y agocontinuity means 'not walking blindly into a new world war 30 years later', this time with nuclear weapons too.
- fifticon 3y agothat line of thinking gives you WW1, WW2, and at the moment, whatever Putin is doing in Ukraine.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agothe idea of continuity is well understood, I suggest you go do your own research.
- phoe-krk 3y agoGot a concrete link? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity gives me a disambiguation page with most sublinks being math, science, entertainment; the "other links" section doesn't seem to have anything suitable here.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agocontinuity implies continuous and uninterrupted. But you know this, feigned ignorance implies you're a bad actor.
- phoe-krk 3y agoI know what "continuity" means in the dictionary, I don't know which aspects of the problem at hand should be continuous and why. Continuity of knowledge (and, if yes, theoretical knowledge, tacit knowledge)? Continuity of culture of reading and writing (in general, or when applied to learning and knowledge generally)? Continuity of history (as a specific branch of knowledge)? Continuity of culture? Continuity of whole nations (as carriers of culture and history)?