ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 days ago
Education is frowned upon - has been since the 80s. It used to be that intelligent, educated people drew respect. Now the school heroes are the football players, and the math-heads and other nerds either pretend to be dumb to avoid trouble, or they get trouble.
And that’s why you have Donald Trump as president, who has the vocabulary of a child: he speaks the language of the ignoramus class.
Solumbran@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because education has been used as a class discriminator since forever.
You want people to stop preferring football over books? Then make schools fair and equal, instead of favouring dominant classes and money.
The reason Trump got elected is because he used fascism as a tool (the same kind that you’re using actually, “make America great again” doesn’t convince people who think everything is perfect), not because of education. And it’s not like education prevents propaganda from working (it often helps it actually) so this is just bullshit.
If you want people to be smart, first stop this moronic class discrimination.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 days ago
It’s 2026, you have Google. There are free apps that teach another language. You can watch a youtube video series that explains accurate molecular biology. The sum of human knowledge is at your fingertips.
When I was living at a homeless shelter, they had a piano. So I taught Myself to play it using the internet on My phone. What’s your excuse for being uneducated?
Solumbran@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wow, I expected filthy messages but yet that went above and beyond.
Maybe instead of piano lessons you should have found morals lessons instead.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 days ago
Physics teaches us that big things are mostly predetermined but small things are chaotic. The motion of a planet through the cosmos is pretty much inevitable, but a single electron could be anywhere in the probability field of its atom.
Psychology is pretty much the same. Behaviours of populations tend towards the mean as the size increases. The course of a nation can be swayed by propaganda, and it is pretty much inevitable. But small things are chaotic. You and I have choices in our lives that have taken us to where we stand now. We can decide our futures.
And we can steer nations by our actions. One day a quantum probability in Earth’s primordial soup created a strand of RNA that would one day change the composition of the whole atmosphere and send robots to Mars. One day the children of that little RNA strand might turn the whole solar system on its course. We can make important choices that change the world. A shitpost on 4chan can elect a president.
You’ve got the power.