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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:00:29 +0000
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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. What he 
said about silent prayer and abortion clinics in the UK was a mixture of 
misinformation and just outright lies but I just know I'll see it 
popping up on social media as the TRUTH about how Christians are being 
persecuted.

Then again what can you expect from someone who complains about free 
speech and democracy in Europe and then the first thing he does 
afterwards is have a meeting with some neo-Nazis.

> But that's SOCIALISM!  (Or at least that's what the current US 
> President's minions in Congress would scream.)
> 

Oh gawd, ask someone like that to explain what socialism is and the 
answer you always get shows they haven't got the first clue about it but 
it's definitely bad so if I label something socialist then it must be 
bad by default.