And i’d fundamentally disagree. plenty of curious people use their curiosity to perpetuate and develop new forms of bigotry.

history of science is loaded with people using new concepts to perpetuate and reinforce racism, sexism, etc. and that is still very much done today.

it’s a naive to assume curiosity is a cure for ignorance. some of the most curious and smart people I know are also the most racist/sexist and pridefully ignorant. some of the dumbest/least curious people I know the least bigoted.

if anything, i’d say the biggest correlation is about whether or not the person believes in a sense of a social pecking order/competition. those who deeply believe in it are furiously trying to crab bucket their way up it by pushing others below them. those who don’t… just don’t care about people’s perceived status no matter it’s basis.

knowledge is a cure for nothing. it’s just knowledge. and knowledge changes over time.

have you taught?

anytime you give people a new metaphorical hammer, they want to go around banging everything they can with it. then they get bored and forget about it.

pop psych is a great example. people love to go around diagnosing everyone with whatever new schema of diagnosis is popular and trendy. trans is very trendy right now and it’s become on point for kids to identify as trans or some other non binary sexual identity. whether or not it sticks in the future, not sure. there is a counter-movement as well towards reinforce trad gender binaries in the dating sphere for sure. i’ve noticed as i age that a lot more people start caring a lot more about trad gender role stuff than they did in my 20s.

relativity only applies at large scales and quantum at small scales.

for everything else, esp earth bound, classic mechanics is works just fine.

purity.

as in whether it applies to the real world is entirely a symbolic construct that has no use/reflection of the real world.

plenty of animals can gender swap, be hermaphrodites, or produce asexually.

a lot of jobs dont need qualifications. just basic knowledge and a willingness to learn is enough. esp for a small company.

that’s not true. maybe you were required to do that, but every school is different and maybe have entire dropped the trad liberal arts or general ed requirements. my college had no such requirements you should take whatever you wanted as long as you had a major.

some schools still also only offer liberal arts style degrees and have no technical degrees.

tons of people in multi-use trails are just completely obvious to everyone trying to pass them. and then of course, when you do pass them, they panic and scream and throw a tantrum about how you almost hit them.

everyone looks down on people they feel are social inferior to them.

job, education, grammar, race, sex, take your pick.

I have a masters in philosophy.

I work in IT security and compliance. I’m getting promoted way faster than most of my peers who have masters in technology… because they are really bad at understanding new concepts and ideals and how to apply them. Their mental flexibility is limited.

or just study what you want and get job skills separately.

our education system shouldn’t be teaching job skills anyway. it should be teaching higher order skills and the jobs should be training you at the specific job. most of the job skills you would learn in school will also be a 5-10 years out of date when you enter the workforce. or, if you are really lucky, your company will will be operating on skills from 20-30 years ago and your 10 year old skills will make you seem like a genius

Yeah but that type of environment requites people who aren’t believers, but who are thinkers. Who don’t think belief is merely a set of dogma that must be protect and proselytized.

It was to you. Other people aren’t you. What is obvious to you, isn’t obvious to other people.

This is where you are failing to understand the issue. Other people are not you. They don’t think like you do. They don’t reason like you do. They are entirely different than you.

Be angry about it all you want. It won’t change the facts that other people’s votes, or non votes, count as much as yours and there isn’t a thing you can do about it. But hey, it probably makes you feel like you’re special, right?

Everything was on the table and extremely obvious. If getting centrists on the right side of history is more dependent on making them feel good and special than on getting them to just make the obviously right choices then everything is already fucked and they’re just going to keep moving the goalposts as they see what they can get away with. Everyone who “just wants change” will never vote far left, only far right, and that’s pretty fucking telling.

Everyone did it. They are the last hold out.

It’s all about controlling the narrative.

Anyone who doesn’t comply with whatever the narrative is gets banned. Whatever the political ideology is, it devolves into ‘true believers’ vs everyone else, and the true believers are the ones who have no idea what their ideology really is other than shouting slogans and issuing purity tests on their fellow members.

It’s not an excuse. It’s reality.

People had two choices last election. Someone who offered more of the same, Harris, or someone who offered at least some sort of change.

They went with the person who offered at least some sort of change. Call them Nazi sympathizers all you want, I guess? Shaming and attacking people for their voting as being evil people isn’t going to get them to come over to your side. If anything it will just make them dig their heels in.

they have zero control over it. wealthy or not.

just like they had zero control over the toilet paper shortages during the pandemic. i remember having to go to like four different stores to find a 6pack of toilet paper in may 2020.

Bingo.

Nobody thinks finer points of political policy is more important than the people who wonk about it all day as a hobby.

Most average people dont’ even know these things exist. They are thinking about what they will eat tonight for dinner or whether to stay home and watch TV or go out to the local bar. Hence why the increase in food prices more or less fucked the Democrats… because people notice when food/gas goes up.

Personally I just gave up in some ways too. It gets old listening to people rant on about transrights every other day. Which a lot of my more political friends have been doing the past few years. What they don’t get is that transrights are irrelevant to like 95% of the population, even though they think that it’s the most pressing moral issue of our lifetime and its the hill they have chose to grandstand on for whatever reason. And my lack of passion for this issue gets me labeled as transphobic by these same folks. And while I support transrights… I just don’t want to scream about it everyday on social media like they do.

why would it ever?

most people do not care about politics. never have, never will.

most moderate voters don’t care about any of that.

they just wanted lower taxes and want to go back to the 2016-2019 economy that he represented. average voters primary vote on their wallets first and foremost. everything else is irrelevant.