• GorGor@startrek.website
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    1 day ago

    They were NEVER smarter. At most at one time they had more leisure time and access to books and tutors when reading and books were rare. That made them more educated, and they want to go back to that desperately.

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      I dont think much of our ruling class wants to go back to reading, looking at the way they… are.

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        24 hours ago

        they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation

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          Exactly. They want to be perceived as smarter (basically look down on the unwashed masses.) They don’t want to do the work to be more educated. Hence the hurdles they can put in front of the poors while they get to pay for fastpass to skip the line directly into the ivy leagues.

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        24 hours ago

        They read, a lot more than you probably realize, and probably a lot more than the average person.

        They also have access to teams of analysts.

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          Have you read the “analysis” on the 2024 election?
          I think that “analyst” is just fancy talk for their relatives who dont have another job when its not an actual scientific field cause I have worked with real analysts.

          Sure they are more literate but also the way they balk at expanding their knowledge makes me think they aren’t reading much worth it.

          They have access to money and trial and error with more room to make more errors than the average person.