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[wufwugy]

There's something to be said for the role of education in teaching people how to think (wrongly). There was once a time where maybe educated people were more skeptical and had better understanding about stuff, but that seems to have reversed.

[Savy]

There's something to be said for the role of education in teaching people how to think (wrongly). There was once a time where maybe educated people were more skeptical and had better understanding about stuff, but that seems to have reversed.

Really? I don't think so. I think most educated people are very skeptical. The issue is freedom of speech has completely gone and it pushes people to take lines they don't fully back because to argue against them would ruin their careers. We are in a lynch mob era like never before.

[wufwugy]

Really? I don't think so. I think most educated people are very skeptical. The issue is freedom of speech has completely gone and it pushes people to take lines they don't fully back because to argue against them would ruin their careers. We are in a lynch mob era like never before.

Here's what I'm getting at:

Adoption of market reforms towards freedom of choice are the most likely component responsible for unprecedented growth in well-being throughout the world in all of human history. Yet, where lies the spearhead of legitimizing opposition to this? The universities. Is that opposition due to thoughtful skepticism? Doesn't seem to be. It seems to be more ideologically and naivete driven.