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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 06:11 AM EST |
"The Sensitive Man" by Poul Anderson addressed such concerns in part.
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| Authored by: stegu on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 06:15 AM EST |
Stupid in its raw form, i.e. lack of intelligence,
is probably only about as common as it ever was.
The kind of stupid that is increasing is what I would
call "wilfully stupid": uneducated and unwilling to
learn.
I try to fight that wherever I see it. I work at a
university partly for the very personal reward I
get from inspiring people to learn. I try to make
a difference where I can, and when I succeed it feels
great. Wilful stupidity can be fought and reduced,
but it is an eternal battle. As society gets more
complex, the number of people who seek to explain
it in overly simple terms will increase. If we could
only make people embrace the complex and messy
world we live in as something wonderful and amazing
that we are all struggling to understand, we would
be much better off.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 03:10 PM EST |
Complaint - PJ - that wasn't a News Pick, it was a News Avalanche :) 167 pp when
saved as pdf. To add wierd to the stupid, as I
was reading Shank's piece, local
radio was replaying a long interview with Chandra Nair on Consumptionomics.
Radio New Zealand
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 07:41 PM EST |
With apologies to Bill Engal;
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