To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

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    fundamentally do not know how to think for themselves about anything.

    What’s sad is, that’s the point. That’s how they get prepared for the future.

    A future where they work for their rulers and don’t cause controversy.

    Saddest part is, their teachers who should be encouraging intrigue and free thought are usually the first ones to fight back against it in their classroom. All to make their job easier, lol.

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      All to make their job easier, lol.

      Not a teacher, but what I keep reading is that they’re trying not to get pilloried by students’ screaming MAGA parents.

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      See I don’t buy into this. To me, this is getting into seriously conspiracy theory stuff. I don’t think that there is some grand plan to keep people stupid so that they don’t cause trouble.

      I think the system just fails at educating students well due to a variety of factors.