My theory is that it’s mandatory government schooling. Seems to be working as intended.

As someone who grew up in a small town in the late 80's and 90's I kinda always figured it was the lack of motivation to go find the sources of information. Library was within a max 10 minute bike ride.

Now stupid people can easily find strangers and “sources”who confirm literally any stupid position. The internet amplifies stupidity I think.

🤣 yep, that wasn’t it.

.....yeah. What could it be? One of those big mysteries!

You can't fix stupid!

I remember saying at a family gathering that if a person is able and doesn’t do what is required to eat, they should starve. By the looks I got, you’d think I grew horns and a tail. If you want to really screw someone up, purposely give them more than they’ve earned. There’s no future in...

We were so hopeful back then, so naive.

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The information-access hypothesis was seductive because it had a clean solution. Build libraries, open the internet, make knowledge free. All good things. But the actual bottleneck was never data — it was the capacity to reason under conditions of abundance. That's a different problem, and it does...

Can we outlaw stupid already?!

Haha!!!

OMG ITS still working😱 https://blossom.primal.net/37ed70da603c84d48fc6b7dd76efb27200b7d48f3c1619ff00bc3540eb75e17d.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/1cda1128c5266a410c07cf40cb158ab6b2e616f3af7871f5a7ee7c1cfc3af96f.jpg

This same people think spreading resources would fix poverty, lol.