Because humans. Or at least those with no humility to realize that we really are just monkeys doing the best that we can. We stay in our lane and respect one another we might get somewhere.
Many people have already cited the core issues of dismantling and defunding proper education along with fomenting xenophobia and hatred, so I’m just adding this meme 🤷🏽♀️
I’m guessing not unless the manuscript was getting passed around—but it follows almost exactly the same schema. Popper probably picked it up from early Gestalt psychologists and he generalised it. Here’s a rough outline of it
I had to look it up because it’s been about a decade since I’ve cracked him open and he did most of the public-facing work in the late 70s with a book called Objective Knowledge, which developed his theory of evolutionary epistemology and set out his tetradic schema
dismantlement of national education standards > uneducated people had uneducated kids > they all rallied around their hatred of educated people > dismantlement of national education standards
Capitalists don't want smart workers otherwise they'd realize they're getting screwed by little 'elitist' white men. So they made the education system teach kids how to be good diligent workers who know enough to perform work, but not enough to question authority. It's institutional
Possibly because, for the last 50 years, the right has directed their evolving propaganda machine to vilify intellectualism, education, and experts while glorifying ignorance. At the same time they've systemically defunded public schools while increasing college education costs. Now we're dumb.
You can teach people to actualize potential. To learn. To achieve whatever in the world they want and will work for. You can teach people to distill and utilize their superpower. But intelligence, in my view, is innate.
Knowledge can be taught.
Critical thinking skills can be taught.
How to construct a rational argument can be taught.
Facts can be taught.
Communication can be taught.
Organising can be taught.
When people are persuaded they’re put upon, they’ll believe any auld shite from the same people with loud voices. It invariably involves hating a weaker group. So they divorce themselves from reason and decency and bear down.
I’ve been dealing with ‘liberals’ today who are misdirecting their anger at innocents and generally talking 💩.
And ‘they’ think they are educated 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
The US is screwed.
I thought about this today with the many people who called me at work for help. People’s brains seem scrambled. I had to repeat myself over and over. Americans are very poor listeners in general but today was off the charts. On surface many of them are not stupid people. It seems likely to get worse
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The problem lay in letting a criminal run for office.
Your vetting process is shit.
Now we’re supposed to pretend that everyone’s thoughts and opinions are valid, and give them equal time.
"The Standard is the Standard".
And FoxSpews..
Final answer
#DeathEaters
https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/computer-science/the-ooda-loop
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They're called Schools.
Knowledge can be taught.
Critical thinking skills can be taught.
How to construct a rational argument can be taught.
Facts can be taught.
Communication can be taught.
Organising can be taught.
actual verifiable information and data is getting harder and harder to verify
And ‘they’ think they are educated 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
The US is screwed.
I dont quite understand the underlying reasoning for it myself.