• Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    Bro’s saying this as if written and spoken language didn’t count as information before LMAO.

    The only difference now is the bandwidth but the information was there

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    Lack of education and critical thinking. Which people thought was because of the lack of available access to information. Yup, turns out even with access to knowledge people still wont bother to educate themselves.

    Now they are blaming educators because they are voluntarily ignorant, we lead the horse to water but we cant make them drink…doesn’t help when they want to call educators racists for trying to encourage a postive self image or dare I utter the taboo phrase, social awareness…

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    Assuming all the information on the internet was true, this could have been reevaluated.

    But in today’s world unfortunately internet is more fabricated information than real information

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    "You’re not just a regular moron, you were DESIGNED to be a moron. " - Portal 2

    Probably the darkest truth - modern moronity is generally by design, not by misfortune.

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    Nearly everything I’ve learned in my life is thanks to the internet but sure. I guess I get the point

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      You have to teach people to teach themselves though. Just because someone has access to a book doesn’t mean they’ll read it.

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        Is logical thought teachable though? You can read all the books, but if you can’t correlate the information, does it matter? And I should say it that way, but more along the lines of two people can read the same set of literature and come to two different conclusions, and somehow we determine one of those conclusions to be right.

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          Is logical thought teachable though?

          I should definitely think so. I would that history would show that, as well. Ideas and suspicion/critical thinking seem like they can possibly be inherent, but they could definitely use some help/a boost in some individuals where it seems to lie dormant. 😅 And the earlier in life we awaken these abstract ideas and thoughts that not everything you see and hear is truth, the more natural it will become. Just like anything else you want to teach your children. And teaching people to teach themselves is one thing I think is omitted in school. Actively practicing and explicitly focusing on how to effectively teach yourself something. Studying Study Techniques. It’s an important skill.

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    I hate how young American leftists like to alienate people by calling anyone without a university degree “uneducated”. I’ve met plenty of morons with degrees and lots of janitors with more brains.

    Edit: this is why the American left is so toxic, can’t even call out your elitism without getting downvoted. The rest of us leftists around the world are face palming at the moronic American leftists who want to hate everyone

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      Not just that, but that somehow MAGAts aren’t educated. Like it’s not the same distribution of morons amongst those with post-high school education as it is amongst those of us who didn’t go to college. I just don’t understand what education has to do with anything. There are very educated people, moderately educated, and uneducated (like me) on both sides of the aisle. But you know what the left is good at? Alienating each other.

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      I’ve studied economics, the bar was very low omg. Psychology students had so much more work it’s crazy