“… there is little reason to remember much of anything.”
This is not quite right. Knowing where you can find information is not the same as already having it in your head because you can’t connect new information with stuff in the cloud — only with what you already know.
For example, if you hear that one million illegals entered the country in the first quarter of this year but you have no idea what the population of the US is, the number is meaningless. Though you might look up the US population, most people won’t. Instead, they will rely on Regime media to provide context. In other words, processing new information is outsourced to the Regime. Good news for the Regime, I suppose.
I feel another aspect of fragile simpletons is they can't evaluate the answer they get from their AI or internet searching. Will they know how to do basic arithmetic with single digit numbers without using their fingers? Will they not even know the questions to ask AI? Even if they can ponder it out they will be too slow to cope & survive. Survival of the fittest is still the rule.
A world of simpletons who don’t know how anything works, let alone how to repair it, will be the death of the modern tech driven world. You have to figure at some point the net will go down for a prolonged period and then things will get real, real fast.
The smartest man I know doesn't have a high school education. He shadowed his farming uncles and dad all o0f his childhood. He was from a poor family who couldn't afford the pharmaceuticals needed to control his ADHA. He was LUCKY! For fun when he was little, he took his few toys or even his dad's mowers and chainsaws apart and learned to put it back together by himself. As an adult, he can fix just about anything. He is a jack-of-all- trades and a master of most. Give me a man with a high "degree" in common sense and self-taught talents over most college educated men ANY DAY, ALL DAY. This man is a dying breed, and everyone who owns a broken down car, has a leak somewhere flooding their basement, has frozen pipes, needs a new roof, needs a young horse broke to ride, needs almost any home improvements, needs a copperhead in a horse's stall shot, needs a barn full of hay - I could go on all day. If there is a tool or piece of equipment he hasn't used before, he'll figure out how to use it - definitely NOT reading the directions. He hasn't got time to go get his GED because he is needed to help everyone he knows fix or build something. His innate intelligence can't be bought or taught. He is a treasure, and as I said, a dying breed because kids are being raised in such a contrived, controlled way they will never even have a chance to gain the skills this man has in his little finger.
“… there is little reason to remember much of anything.”
This is not quite right. Knowing where you can find information is not the same as already having it in your head because you can’t connect new information with stuff in the cloud — only with what you already know.
For example, if you hear that one million illegals entered the country in the first quarter of this year but you have no idea what the population of the US is, the number is meaningless. Though you might look up the US population, most people won’t. Instead, they will rely on Regime media to provide context. In other words, processing new information is outsourced to the Regime. Good news for the Regime, I suppose.
I feel another aspect of fragile simpletons is they can't evaluate the answer they get from their AI or internet searching. Will they know how to do basic arithmetic with single digit numbers without using their fingers? Will they not even know the questions to ask AI? Even if they can ponder it out they will be too slow to cope & survive. Survival of the fittest is still the rule.
I remember people saying they don’t need to remember things because they can google it. Those people are dumbasses. They in reality know nothing.
Someone with a smartphone attached to their hand is no different. I’ll take the guy who knows his Latin declensions over the guy who can use a phone.
A world of simpletons who don’t know how anything works, let alone how to repair it, will be the death of the modern tech driven world. You have to figure at some point the net will go down for a prolonged period and then things will get real, real fast.
When one’s metadata belies intelligence, one is extraordinarily rendered by the surveillance automata, for commodification.
Ai can't pound a nail in straight.
I made sure my children learned to take care of themselves. They all DIYers.
I'll be damnd if my grand kids grow up to be pussys either.
The smartest man I know doesn't have a high school education. He shadowed his farming uncles and dad all o0f his childhood. He was from a poor family who couldn't afford the pharmaceuticals needed to control his ADHA. He was LUCKY! For fun when he was little, he took his few toys or even his dad's mowers and chainsaws apart and learned to put it back together by himself. As an adult, he can fix just about anything. He is a jack-of-all- trades and a master of most. Give me a man with a high "degree" in common sense and self-taught talents over most college educated men ANY DAY, ALL DAY. This man is a dying breed, and everyone who owns a broken down car, has a leak somewhere flooding their basement, has frozen pipes, needs a new roof, needs a young horse broke to ride, needs almost any home improvements, needs a copperhead in a horse's stall shot, needs a barn full of hay - I could go on all day. If there is a tool or piece of equipment he hasn't used before, he'll figure out how to use it - definitely NOT reading the directions. He hasn't got time to go get his GED because he is needed to help everyone he knows fix or build something. His innate intelligence can't be bought or taught. He is a treasure, and as I said, a dying breed because kids are being raised in such a contrived, controlled way they will never even have a chance to gain the skills this man has in his little finger.
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