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To: Heartlander

In other words, get rid of the last generation that knows how to think so decisions can be made by people who have been properly indoctrinated.


7 posted on 07/20/2017 8:18:38 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: bigbob

Bingo.


26 posted on 07/20/2017 8:22:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: bigbob

[[In other words, get rid of the last generation that knows how to think so decisions can be made by people who have been properly indoctrinated.]]

Exactly- they are brainwashing our kids- and it’s working- more than 60% now believe man is causing climate change- and these folks will NOT do the hard work of investigating the false claim themselves- preferring to just take the liar’s words for it-

That’s apparently how science works now- brainwash hte kids and wait for their parents to die so that the leftist agenda can move forward


65 posted on 07/20/2017 8:39:40 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bigbob

“In other words, get rid of the last generation that knows how to think so decisions can be made by people who have been properly indoctrinated.”

Nye is a classical Intellectual Yet Idiot, who spends his life telling, us how to think, live our lives and how to vote. Nye is a classical Brown Shirted Intellection Yet Idiot wanting to rule the rest of the world with his so called wisdom.

Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.

But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.

With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.

But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.

With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.

Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)

This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class


68 posted on 07/20/2017 8:44:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)
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To: bigbob

“In other words, get rid of the last generation that knows how to think so decisions can be made by people who have been properly indoctrinated”

Ding, ding ding! We have a winner!


101 posted on 07/20/2017 9:59:16 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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