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**zithromaxlinks** · 07-05-2007, 06:12 PM

Originally posted by Blake
Pekka is right.
I'm not sure how much of it is on purpose - I mean deliberately with ill intent, versus just a society which has evolved "naturally" into a state which is severely suboptimal for harnessing the potential of human minds. I mean we could DESIGN a society which is much better for the individual, and much better for humanity and much better for the planet. That we aren't doing that... it's negligent, but how much of it is deliberate suppression of better ideas and deliberate propagation of a system which is known to be inferior, versus just a system coasting along as it always has, barely directed, not really serving any purpose, the people who understand it exploiting it for personal gain but not necessarily seeing the big picture. Yeah. You put it better than I did, but this is what I partially mean, this is one of the ways the dumbing down would manifest itself and a form in which we can recognize it.

07-05-2007, 06:12 PM	#6
zithromaxlinks Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 560 Senior Member	Originally posted by Blake Pekka is right. I'm not sure how much of it is on purpose - I mean deliberately with ill intent, versus just a society which has evolved "naturally" into a state which is severely suboptimal for harnessing the potential of human minds. I mean we could DESIGN a society which is much better for the individual, and much better for humanity and much better for the planet. That we aren't doing that... it's negligent, but how much of it is deliberate suppression of better ideas and deliberate propagation of a system which is known to be inferior, versus just a system coasting along as it always has, barely directed, not really serving any purpose, the people who understand it exploiting it for personal gain but not necessarily seeing the big picture. Yeah. You put it better than I did, but this is what I partially mean, this is one of the ways the dumbing down would manifest itself and a form in which we can recognize it.
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