To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    933·
    1 year ago

    Yes, but they’re literally being conditioned into it. You and me too. No one is immune to propaganda.

    I used to hold people accountable for their (lack of) knowledge, but there’s literally billions being poured into subverting these people daily. You can’t really hold that against (most of) them.

    • ugh@lemm.ee
      192·
      1 year ago

      Education is the obvious fix, but at least in America, the idiots are trying to destroy it. If people learned critical thinking, almost everything else would fall into place. If we stopped reinforcing learned helplessness and made people practice logic and learn consequences, society would see a huge benefit. People need to be held accountable for their ignorance. Otherwise, they won’t learn. Those who refuse to learn should rightfully be shunned, because they’re the biggest propaganda weapon out there.

      Cognitive dissonance is another major reason for idiocracy. The MAGAts are so blatant about their love for it. “Wokeness” is healing from cognitive dissonance, which they’ve labeled as a virus.

      I’m sympathetic and offer to help someone if they’re being a bit stupid (all of us have our moments), but if they refuse, that’s where they should be held accountable.

    • Omgarm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      195·
      1 year ago

      On the other hand I am pretty confident I am not an idiot, and if IQ tests done when I was 8 count I know I’m not. That does not mean I don’t regularly do something wrong, or learn something completely obvious. I’m sure that in those situations somebody else wonders how I lived this long.

      • Nudding@lemmy.world
        182·
        1 year ago

        if IQ tests done when I was 8 count

        They don’t, unless you’re currently 9.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        See, the fact you think the IQ tests matters in any way means your uniformed about it, which comes back to the topic at hand.

        IQ tests are bullshit; it’s been proven many times.

        Yet you were told they weren’t. And that informed how you think.

        I could call you stupid for bringing up an IQ test.

        Or I could accept that people not having all the knowledge in the world is just part of being human, and that there are many things you know that I probably don’t.