Quote:
Originally Posted by frostfire
sigh...selection/availability/confirmation bias taking place I am sure. I would replace "we" with "some of us." In my neck of woods, I am seeing near irreversible trajectory towards idiocracy  |
Thats one way to look at it. I am not sure anymore. The one side is to assume all the crazy emotional stuff we see that upsets us is how it is everywhere and its all negative. But then again there are an awful lot of people on this planet. As I get older I wonder about what the true ratio of the lesser intelligence to the clever, to the genius really is. Not nessasarily educated either, because there are plently of people without formal education that are thriving just fine. Its a hard thing to measure.
I think our perception is about whom we surround ourselves with to create our own normalcy and then form opinions on that baseline. Operating outside that is where its easy for us to stop listening. For me, at one time I wanted to be the smartest person in the room. Teenager to young twenties...Then realized the fallacies in never being able to develop from not being challenged. Recognizing what it is for what it is when some folks blow you away and others are less stimulating may not mean what we think it means. Sometimes its not right to beleive what we think.
I recognize that I am completely guilty of reporting drama that in every sense is pointless at times. I am trying to get to the point to see that there is something from everyone and everyone has a different thing in life that we may not be as good at, or can learn another perspective. The why.
Sorta like, the ancient Egyptians could not have built the pyramids without ancient aliens...ext. Not really, "people are smart and capable and always have been. We seem to always figure things out." A man with zero education once told me that. Even before all we know now people did amazing things. Its learning to accept that without the extravagant, magical or emotional.
Politics...IMO, they seem to have no association to intelligence as much as I would think they do. Its a completely seperate thing. If thats what you refer to. It still gets me uncontrollably spun up at times as well...
FWIW, It is bias, because I felt like saying something positive because it spoke to me in a positive way. Seeing people do something interesting to me.
All that said, Now lets get in our shops and develop a new power weapon!
