I agree, important factors.
I worked in education. Many years ago, I had to attend a school in-service on teaching math. The presenter, representing the school district, said that it did not matter whether the student got the right answer, as long as they used the correct process. I raised my hand and asked the presenter, “Would you please tell that to my bank?” (Afterwards, I was called into the principal’s office because of the question I asked. But I did not back down.)
I do not think that 50 years ago the same number of people honestly believed that it is a good thing to cut off the penis of a 5-year-old if he says he is really a girl, or that the concept that “there are correct answers in math” was racist, but they just didn’t have the opportunity to voice those beliefs to large numbers of people. I think people have been systematically led to not think or evaluate, and to ignore/accept irrationality.
Dry, but good. Let me add a little. There are levels: Data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom and creativity. I will come back to creativity. What is the big missing component in much of the education system and beyond? The ability to synthesize one level to get to the next. Turning data into information; turning information into knowledge; etc. This used to be taught, at least at the better schools and universities. Now each level just pops up on the screen. Most of which is total crap. But since people don’t know how to synthesize for themselves, they believe truth and crap equally. And whichever is repeated more frequently becomes accepted. Remember when teachers made you show how you got to the answer? That was always a bit of a pain for me because it so obvious what the answer was.
Because of the internet, most people are stuck at the information level because that is all they are being given. And since a large portion of the information is wrong, they sound stupid.
Creativity spans many levels. A finger painting of a flying dog can be creative. A new way of creating a sustainable fusion reaction is creative. What I found is that the ability to create at a high level is rare and the ability to create at a revolutionary level is extremely rare. But I believe it can be taught.
Good video. It ties together so much of what I have learned. It is such a wordy video though, so wordy that Decopy AI's summary won't fit in a comment.
Here is a post that I did on stupidity. Much shorter video. Unlike Nietzsche, Bonhoffer did see stupidity as a moral failure.
Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity - 5 minute video that explains why you can't wake people up by using facts on them. Also, stupid people are worse than evil people.
Stupidity being a moral failure always took me aback given that the people are constantly being lied to on a massive scale by totalitarian mechanisms (sometimes masquerading as Marxism, Communism, socialism, etc.); what I call weapons grade propaganda. So, people should do better to actively think and understand, but damn can you blame some of them when they just want to live their lives?
I put my research in my post and you may want to look through it.
I think watching all of my videos first prepares people to watch your video; otherwise they just might not understand. This is a form of "sequential thinking" that was in your video. This term is new to me, but I naturally teach using the Socratic method which uses sequential questions in order to train the minds of students.
Education and vaxxed.
I agree, important factors. I worked in education. Many years ago, I had to attend a school in-service on teaching math. The presenter, representing the school district, said that it did not matter whether the student got the right answer, as long as they used the correct process. I raised my hand and asked the presenter, “Would you please tell that to my bank?” (Afterwards, I was called into the principal’s office because of the question I asked. But I did not back down.)
Great analogy.
Good for you.
I do not think that 50 years ago the same number of people honestly believed that it is a good thing to cut off the penis of a 5-year-old if he says he is really a girl, or that the concept that “there are correct answers in math” was racist, but they just didn’t have the opportunity to voice those beliefs to large numbers of people. I think people have been systematically led to not think or evaluate, and to ignore/accept irrationality.
Dry, but good. Let me add a little. There are levels: Data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom and creativity. I will come back to creativity. What is the big missing component in much of the education system and beyond? The ability to synthesize one level to get to the next. Turning data into information; turning information into knowledge; etc. This used to be taught, at least at the better schools and universities. Now each level just pops up on the screen. Most of which is total crap. But since people don’t know how to synthesize for themselves, they believe truth and crap equally. And whichever is repeated more frequently becomes accepted. Remember when teachers made you show how you got to the answer? That was always a bit of a pain for me because it so obvious what the answer was.
Because of the internet, most people are stuck at the information level because that is all they are being given. And since a large portion of the information is wrong, they sound stupid.
Creativity spans many levels. A finger painting of a flying dog can be creative. A new way of creating a sustainable fusion reaction is creative. What I found is that the ability to create at a high level is rare and the ability to create at a revolutionary level is extremely rare. But I believe it can be taught.
Good video. It ties together so much of what I have learned. It is such a wordy video though, so wordy that Decopy AI's summary won't fit in a comment.
Here is a post that I did on stupidity. Much shorter video. Unlike Nietzsche, Bonhoffer did see stupidity as a moral failure.
https://greatawakening.win/p/19AxUoUSln/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity-/c/
Stupidity being a moral failure always took me aback given that the people are constantly being lied to on a massive scale by totalitarian mechanisms (sometimes masquerading as Marxism, Communism, socialism, etc.); what I call weapons grade propaganda. So, people should do better to actively think and understand, but damn can you blame some of them when they just want to live their lives?
I put my research in my post and you may want to look through it.
https://greatawakening.win/p/19AxUoUSln/x/c/4eSkd2GVbTH
I think watching all of my videos first prepares people to watch your video; otherwise they just might not understand. This is a form of "sequential thinking" that was in your video. This term is new to me, but I naturally teach using the Socratic method which uses sequential questions in order to train the minds of students.