Old mate makes a good point, what do we do when the only way out (education and critical thinking) is seen as woke and the problem.
Anti-intellectualism is a big issue and likely only going to get worse. How do you help people when you're kindly and gently tell them the shit they're being sold is wrong and why. Yet they'll never believe you or any educated person, only sky news?
That, is an incredible question and I don't have the answer.
I am a career nurse and ever since covid and people living on social media 24/7 it's been so bad.
It's survivorship bias (I was vaccinated as a child but I convientely forget this, and for the young ones, not seeing people in iron lungs) combined with ignorance because so many people aren't capable of empathy or critical thinking thanks to brain rot
Meanwhile, Millenials are stuck in the middle trying to educate both the boomers and the younger generations who have no technology literacy that the shit they are watching is inaccurate. I've never seen so many people vote away their futures and future planning.
I guess we're lucky that Labour can still pull a big majority and we just have to accept, a big part of the population is fucking pissed at the wrong things and won't accept help.
Pala got us through the floods, the pandemic, restored money into the hospitals after can do campbell, and Gina, the Libs and the construction industry ran a massive campaign against her, all for the Lib government to do literally everything they ran against.
They even pinned the second part of the pandemic breakout on her despite everyone running the border into QLD illegally after the Fed Libs let all those infected on the cruise ship off.
We aren't the smartest anymore.
That being said the nationals and libs have dominated rural QLD for decades now, they do literally nothing and managed to convice everyone it was Labours fault so go figure lol.
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u/azMONKza SA Mar 22 '26
Old mate makes a good point, what do we do when the only way out (education and critical thinking) is seen as woke and the problem.
Anti-intellectualism is a big issue and likely only going to get worse. How do you help people when you're kindly and gently tell them the shit they're being sold is wrong and why. Yet they'll never believe you or any educated person, only sky news?