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I don't think so. We should find a way for people to become great without sacrificing their lives. Why? Because we want everyone to be great. And we can't have
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
I don't think so. We should find a way for people to become great without sacrificing their lives. Why? Because we want everyone to be great. And we can't have everyone sacrifice their life. It makes no sense if you look at it from this standpoint.
"Look at the typical 17-18 year old out of High School and see if you're satisfied with their knowledge/understanding of things."
That's because education doesn't work. You can make them "study" 80 hours weeks and they will not know or understand anything. They don't have time for that! They have to study.
The only way to understand something is to relax and see the big picture. You can't see the larger picture from inside the treadmill.
- im3w1l 14y agoDo you think hyper-specialization could enable this?
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI believe making everything simple, accessible and easy to understand can enable this. As opposed to knowledge enclosed in arcane tomes in the library only accessible to those in the inner circle.
- endtime 14y ago> We should find a way for people to become great without sacrificing their lives. Why? Because we want everyone to be great. I don't think you are actually expressing a coherent desire. To paraphrase the villain in The Incredibles: "If everyone's great, no one is."
- evincarofautumn 14y agoI disagree. Suppose you increase the baseline “greatness” of humanity on the whole, so that the average person compares to the greats of the past, and the greats of the present are greater still.