Okay, that’s fair. I’m well aware that many people just don’t understand something, I just don’t get how some (rare, thankfully) specimens of humanity appear to be completely incapable of using some of the most basic functions of a computer, like the people I linked in my post above.
[throws up hands]
THANK YOU! It’s so refreshing to see someone agree that “I don’t know” is an acceptable answer! I wish more people would come to realize this.
Wow. You sound like you’ve had some pretty bad experiences.
I would contest your assertion that critical thinking is rare nowadays; considering how base human nature hasn’t changed in several millennia (seriously, look up Pompeii graffiti) I’d say that it has always been rare and increasingly convenient means of communication with one another have just made it easier to see.
Text-based communication makes it far more difficult for me to tell when someone is being facetious, and I’m a guy who has trouble doing that in regular conversations unless the speaker’s tone is as sarcastic as humanly possible. Apparently it’s one of the symptoms of my autism, and considering the sheer amount of concentrated autism to be found in EvE, well…is it really that surprising when you’re taken seriously?
Dare I say most of us have, though that conclusion from my words is … a stretch.
No. This isn’t a matter of kids drawing graffity and you connecting my post with that is just silly.
Modern technology, combined with several decades of bad education, further combined with scientific research aiming at manipulating the human mind (influencing modern politics, advertisements and video games), constant overloading of the brain, constant distraction, a low quality childhood (especially in the wealthy nations) and other things is what turns humans into mindless automatons who lack impulse control, the ability to self reflect, critical thinking and actual empathy.
I’m talking about actual empathy, not fake wannabe-good-person empathy, like it’s being practised in borderline fascist P.C.-oriented places like the US of A or Great Britain, if you need an example of where to look.
Modern politics raising children to tiny totalitarian tyrants, overly sheltering them into degenerated, immature, ignorant morons not much unlike animals, but worse, to become fascists by believing that political correctness and worshipping an imaginary, masturbation-hating tyrant in the sky makes them good people … and not to forget a constant induction of fear. (I’m looking at you especially, US of A.)
Roughly speaking. There is no point in expanding on this, at all, and most people are completely incapable of dealing with having their wannabe individualism and wannabe free will questioned.
Never before in the history of mankind, until relatively recently, were people capable of numbing their brains with constant babbling and video from TV. Humanity didn’t have TVs to mindlessly stare at 99.99999999% of its existence.
Never before in the history of mankind was neuroscience as advanced as it is today and we’re living in times where tomorrow it’s going to be far more advanced than today.
We’re living in times where people are suffering from short attention spans (do you even really understand what that means and how to notice it?) unlike pretty much anyone else in history before that, because never before in history was humanity capable of being enslaved by both their own technological marvels combined with scientific research dedicated to manipulating the human mind.
And, of course, it doesn’t bother people at all, because nowadays Ignorance is Strength and the dumber you are, the more fun you are and fun and amusement is all that matters.
In before someone declaring “conspiracy”, also believing that “advertisements don’t work” and “FarmVille” was a really good game instead of a horrible ■■■■■■■■■■■ milestone of modern scientific manipulation techniques research.
You’re free to disagree all you want, but I haven’t spent way over half of my life learning, researching, working hard and improving myself to talk about this with someone who forms an opinion in - what appears to be - minutes, or with some hating wannabe intellectual who lives in a fantasy land of theories, believing in the false authority of allmighty studies as if they truly reflected human perception and reality, with an EQ so low it could send us a postcard from China.
He is saying that Anderson is a hypocrite, who continually faults others for the precise logical fallacies and irrational idiocy that she herself is chronically guilty of. It is the classic tale of someone who is just intelligent enough to understand simple ideas, but not wise enough to engage in critical thinking or constructive dialogue. Anderson is basically a gnat who flies around the picnic basket, and although she is convinced that she is a guest of honor, she is a mere beta orbiter.
People in the past were more intelligent. You can simply examine books or newspapers from the Nineteenth Century, and it becomes clear they were engaged in more nuanced reasoning.
Today, we live in an idiocracy rather than a meritocracy, and the proliferation of electronic media has been a major catalyst of this transformation. Not only is mass stupidity broadcast far and wide, seeping into the subconscious of even the youngest children, but individuals are continuously deterred from quiet contemplation.
Consider the modern American bar, compared with a traditional European pub, filled with blaring speakers and flashing televisions. People surround themselves with these devices, drowning out their own thoughts, just as predicted in the works of Orwell, Vonnegut, and Bradbury. This irreversibly changes the very plasticity of the brain, ensuring that an individual devolves into a mere bot.
They always ask for ‘proof’, because they can’t think for themself.
Now that is a surprise.
Judging from your usual posts, I did not expected you to have an academic background and degree to teach at an university.
I still find your claim of such occupations dubious, but you still seem to have capabilities of proper argument-making yourself.
I do disagree with the message behind it, however.
