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Subject: Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:04:54 -0600
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JAB wrote:
> On 10/02/2025 15:36, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 2/10/2025 1:54 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
>>> JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> One I found amusing was a opinion piece in a paper making all the
>>>> normal claims of how the younger generation was lazy, unintelligent,
>>>> would be the downfall of society etc. The catch ... it was a hundred
>>>> years old.
>>>
>>> Yes. In fact, as I recall, it goes back to at least Socrates complaining
>>> about the same thing and he lived 470 – 399 BC.
>>>
>>>> Do we really want swathes of people thinking that the likes of Andrew
>>>> Tate make some good points and he's a intellectual?
>>>
>>> I don't but for large swathes of people we're already there. And not
>>> just young people.
>>>
>>> It's a fun fantasy I have sometimes, what if there were a magical school
>>> system that makes everyone intelligent, analytical and mean? Meaning all
>>> bullshit artists and snake oil salesmen would just be ignored or
>>> ridiculed and would have to do real work or starve.
> 
> I do think it time for countries to start being more serious about 
> teaching actual critical thinking skills at a much early age so they are 
> much better equipped to not basically believe anything just as some 
> talking head said it on the internet or indeed JD Vance said it.
I think it is time that we groom the sheep consumer.  Pull out education 
and libraries and watch the children flounder in the debating arenas.  I 
have an education, why would I vote for more education? - let's have 
some rubes for easy money and controlling leadership.
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