I've known people who excel in their field, who, when it comes to politics, have the most bird-brained ideas, beliefs, and opinions.
Doesn't anybody escape their indoctrination unscathed? Is this how the elite mark our minds, by instilling us with political ignorance?
Even as a humble prole, I feel I have a better grasp on politics than the average educated person in America. I mean, have you seen where I come from? The people I was raised with? You'd really expect better from such established pedigrees, but no, they are exactly the same.
To understand politics one must also understand life In the modern age 'educated' people are incredibly sheltered and naïve
Brody Cruz
Since education is basically just a polite proxy for class in America: why would the people already benefitting from the system (the bourgeoisie and capital) care to try and critically investigate their ideology?
Luke Hall
>incredibly sheltered and naïve terrifyingly so.
I have to accept that, due to my programming, I will never be able to accept certain things as fact, even if they are objectively true.
Someone might be a 3rd degree mason and tell me the moon landing was faked, and I'll still call them a liar. There are just things beyond my ken, things i cannot and will not ever understand.
But even I can pursue politics with more scrutiny than the average grad student of phd. Its remarkable, you put ten people in a room, and not one of them will agree on a single point when it comes to politics, no matter what their background or position they held prior.
Yet we are all somehow supposed to elect a 'leader' by way of a 'democracy', when we can't even agree on what we should have for dinner if uncle sam is picking up the tab.
No wonder they only give us two options. Any more would only confuse us..
Landon Hall
apologies, i thought the existential mailaise that pervades america was more or less universal.
Samuel James
Their introduction to politics tends to be social. Likely in college, someone in their friend group gets politically active, probably in a major like social work or one of the "studies" spouting everything they think is racist. The rest of the social group follows. They become informed just enough to linger on "Mt Stupid" where they refuse to believe they could be wrong. This is exacerbated by a smug sense of superiority from their education. Someone without a college degree could not possibly know more than them on a subject
Lincoln Wright
again, i don't know why i come here. maybe its to talk to people such as the one who posted here V
Camden Reed
A smart dog is easier to train than a dumb one.
Grayson Wilson
By the very nature of education, they rely one authority to tell them facts instead of cafe observation of some time period to observe the facts.
Justin Murphy
yes, but there is what we 'know' and what we KNOW. There are certain inescapable, fundamental truths about human beings that we must accept if we are to particpate in politics in any meaningful way, and despite the aungst I feel, I just cannot accept them.
I guess that is why i come here, to keep my feet on the ground and my political expectations reasonable. For every moment where people are at there best, there are ten where they are at their worse.
Brandon Russell
Domestication.
Adrian Perry
It is, but the people who are getting rich off the current situation are inclined to ascribe it to other causes than the fundamental structure of the system they benefit from
Oliver Nguyen
Because staying inside with air conditioning studying all day means you can be a child your whole life.
anything I may hope to accomplish through my participation in society will ultimately be marred by the nature of the people who comprise it.
Whatever my grand ambitions may be, they will only be realized through the filter of the lowest common denomitor.
If the average Any Forums user can't do it, can't understand it, then America can't either.
Angel Ward
Maybe smart people can more readily identify shit being fucked up, the whole ignorance is bliss thing. High int prone to slides idk
Kevin Robinson
>Because staying inside with air conditioning studying all day means you can be a child your whole life. This user gets it. It also leads to this user's pic_related.
Mason Nguyen
I went to Cornell and I can assure you that these kids come in already acting like faggots.
Easton Taylor
there is no group small enough, no individuals strong enough, that I could ever feel whole working side by side with them, because the nature of people is tragic; we are all very petty.
We can not set aside our differences for one second, we can not acknowledge something to be in our mutual interest longer than it takes to betray each others confidence.
Everyone is so eager to betray each other that we all pull each other down towards the center.
Jaxson Taylor
and the things people call themselves, the labels they identify each other as, nothing can be called what it is.
Take, for example, the workers movement at the turn of the 1900's. The people who were using government capital and unrestrained use of government force to take peoples farms were called 'capitalists' and the people advocating for fair, free market conditions and an end to price fixing were called 'communists' or 'socialists'.
History is filled with so many absurdities that it almost feels undignified to participate in politics, even as our very survival depends on it.
And thats to say nothing of what it takes to actually become GOOD at politics.
Lucas Moore
ah, yes, gods little joke on me. I'm sure hes having a nice laugh right now.
Ethan Gray
Stop being schizo and start living in reality please.
do you have complete mastery of your autonomous nervous system user? can you chose not to blink for 4 hours straight or condition yourself not to have morning wood?
