A troubling observation on social media phenomena

[fazool]

Originally Posted by amyFB

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I'm just plain sad for the poorly educated among us.

Before you think I am an ogre: I'm an educator. I also have an intellectually handicapped close family member. I know a lot about this topic.

Go watch Your Grammar Sucks, then come back. This is not picking on the downtrodden learning challenged of society.

When you see the sheer magnitude of stupidity you might also get angry. It's a totally different thing to be compassionate than to lowering the bar and watching tens of millions of people become incomprehensible blathering idiots that can't stitch a coherent thought together.....and then "liking" it.

[StevenL]

Originally Posted by fazool

incomprehensible blathering idiots that can't stitch a coherent thought together.....

And yes we should ridicule, mock and scorn those who deliberately

sounds exactly like the management of the State agency I just retired from... early, for that very reason in large part. Educated people, allegedly.

[amyFB]

Originally Posted by fazool

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And yes we should ridicule, mock and scorn those who deliberately

Trying to follow your thinking here...

Is your OP wondering if it is valid to correlate the deliberate ones with the accumulated Likes?

In the context of social media, I am not sure how to best determine if someone is truly uneducated/illiterate/disabled, or is deliberately pretending to be so.

[HHP]

In the early days of email, we had a guy who would send long messages with no punctuation at all, none. We would try various versions until we got one that made sense.

[Silurian]

I think its simply a response to the functional biases we encounter in daily life. No amount of parabolic conjecture is going to achieve a fundamental paradigm shift. For me personally, I saw this coming back in 69 when I was working on the Aswan High Dam, it wasn't the heat, flies or even the dead pharaohs. It was simply the lack of cheesecake.
More tea vicar?

[fazool]

Originally Posted by amyFB

Trying to follow your thinking here...

Is your OP wondering if it is valid to correlate the deliberate ones with the accumulated Likes?

In the context of social media, I am not sure how to best determine if someone is truly uneducated/illiterate/disabled, or is deliberately pretending to be so.

no it was an edit error, I started to say we should mock those who deliberately degrade our intelligence but deleted that as it was off topic

[Dr. Spivey]

On another forum I belong to, one member called another a Pre Madonna.

[LouieAtienza]

Originally Posted by Dr. Spivey

On another forum I belong to, one member called another a Pre Madonna.

As opposed to a post-Madonna?

I think a big thing about the like button is that many people "pay back" a like they received from someone else, regardless of what the person posted. The post may not have even be read, and the "thumbs up" button is just automatically pressed.

Stark contrast to the dislike button on YouTube and some of the viciousness there.

But at least on this forum, NOBODY TYPES IN ALLCAPS IN RUN-ON SENTENCES THAT ARE OFTEN INCOHERENT AND DISJOINTED LIKE THEY'VE NEVER SEEN A PUNCTUATION MARK IN THEIR LIVES SO THEY SAY THINGS LIKE SCREAMIN OR THATS SO B*T*HIN IT HURTS MY EYES TO READ

[Song]

Originally Posted by fazool

this is about people acting like mindless sheep.

I've noticed that it is the norm to be a follower to someone, <snip> regardless of what you are following.

And a tremendous number of people just blindly follow <snip>

Humans are brainwashed from infancy to be followers and are inculcated
throughout childhood to believe in and accept unprovable concepts
without a shred of evidence.
Through no fault of their own these slave minds are taught to assign
authority to those who appear or claim to have an answer.

Fear, laziness, acquiescence, and the absence of critical thought processes are the bane of mankind
and the root of all tyranny and kakistocracy...




"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson

[Gmountain]

People are proud to show how stupid and ignorant they are, as long as they can get on TV or get "likes." It's really kind of sad.

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by We Walk in Song

Humans are brainwashed from infancy to be followers and are inculcated throughout childhood to believe in and accept unprovable concepts without a shred of evidence...Fear, laziness, acquiescence, and the absence of critical thought processes are the bane of mankind and the root of all tyranny and kakistocracy...

Please define "unprovable concepts without a shred of evidence" and "absence of critical thought" - within the express guidelines of this forum...

Originally Posted by We Walk in Song

Through no fault of their own these slave minds are taught to assign authority to those who appear or claim to have an answer...

Can you read?
Can you write?
Can you balance your checkbook?
Do you have some sort of phenomenological/historical/philosophical grasp of the world you live in?
Did/does that make you a slave?
Thank those who taught you while you were young - and in that Jeffersonian spirit you cite, accept the fact that some folks might just happen to have the very answers you need, at whatever stage of your life...

[Long Jon]

Grate thred fazole I am licking everything i red sofa .

[amyFB]

Originally Posted by Long Jon

Grate thred fazole I am licking everything i red sofa .

Stir briskly, cover and let rise for one hour then bake.

[Fatstrat]

Originally Posted by fazool

Before you think I am an ogre: I'm an educator. I also have an intellectually handicapped close family member. I know a lot about this topic.

Go watch Your Grammar Sucks, then come back. This is not picking on the downtrodden learning challenged of society.

When you see the sheer magnitude of stupidity you might also get angry. It's a totally different thing to be compassionate than to lowering the bar and watching tens of millions of people become incomprehensible blathering idiots that can't stitch a coherent thought together.....and then "liking" it.

IMO the current state of the world offers significant proof that higher education doesn't necessarily translate to high intelligence. Maybe we should pay a little more attention to what "common folk" think instead of deriding them as ignorant. Even if it is a bit hard to decipher. Couldn't be any worse than where the elitist have taken us in their highly educated snooty false wisdom.

[steelvibe]

Originally Posted by Fatstrat

IMO the current state of the world offers significant proof that higher education doesn't necessarily translate to high intelligence. Maybe we should pay a little more attention to what "common folk" think instead of deriding them as ignorant. Even if it is a bit hard to decipher. Couldn't be any worse than where the elitist have taken us in their highly educated snooty false wisdom.

Yep, plenty on leadership platforms that demonstrate the notion that "higher education doesn't necessarily translate to high intelligence."

I confidently and unapologetically agree with you. I think the observation I take away for the OP is that the danger lies in the fact that too many of these "smart" people are beginning to determine what smart is for those of us who really are smart.