Do you remember before the internet, when people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?
Yeah, it wasn't that.
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My theory is that it’s mandatory government schooling. Seems to be working as intended.
As someone who grew up in a small town in the late 80's and 90's I kinda always figured it was the lack of motivation to go find the sources of information. Library was within a max 10 minute bike ride.
Now stupid people can easily find strangers and “sources”who confirm literally any stupid position. The internet amplifies stupidity I think.
🤣 yep, that wasn’t it.
🤣 definitely does
Without a doubt bro
.....yeah. What could it be? One of those big mysteries!
You can't fix stupid!
It takes time to educate oneself
I remember saying at a family gathering that if a person is able and doesn’t do what is required to eat, they should starve. By the looks I got, you’d think I grew horns and a tail.
If you want to really screw someone up, purposely give them more than they’ve earned.
There’s no future in politics for me and I’m cool with that.
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We were so hopeful back then, so naive.
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It’s just natural law.
The information-access hypothesis was seductive because it had a clean solution. Build libraries, open the internet, make knowledge free. All good things. But the actual bottleneck was never data — it was the capacity to reason under conditions of abundance. That's a different problem, and it doesn't have a clean solution.
Can we outlaw stupid already?!
Haha!!!
Agree! The further we get from natural law the worse it gets for humanity. We’re supposed to be a higher order than the animal kingdom but we can be human yet still learn from it.
Increasingly localize interaction and accountability, diminish the state’s role.
This same people think spreading resources would fix poverty, lol.
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