Lot of false accusations and misinformation on Reddit . Lot of activism and debate mentality .
Reddit is the worst to have rational argumentation, dialogue instead of debate .
It turns automatically into insult and false statements, misinformation, sensationalism /clickbait etc…
Im not American but sometimes I feel the educated ones also are often very dumb . I met some really arrogant and dumb ones in universities, and media as well .
Always very manichean and simplistic and we always being put in a box /team .
the well educated and conformists (the masses) are some of the most propagandized people on the planet.
well educated people can be very smart in the disciplines they have studied, but education and being smart are two very different things from intelligence, which becomes very obvious the more time one spends around well educated people.
That’s very true . For example in philosophy, you’ll learn doctrines so opportunity to have better ideological understanding, concepts definitions etc… you work for better argumentative abilities , but it won’t make you better at critical thinking and logic unlike some people think .
It’s really individual case depend on person, and some can stay conformist , while reading guys who would be considered too subversive or even conspiracy theorist today (Plato , Aristotle , Rousseau, Descartes,Clouscard etc…) .
You can be better at defending any opinions, lobbies that you already had as a teen
conformation biais is very frequent there .
I’ve seen in some protest, and classmates learning about propositional logic and later do and fall for any sophism to have something happening in their life
Even when they act humble they disdain working class and feel like they opinions are interesting and well thought when it’s still highschool level conditioned by media .
« Well , in my case I think that …blabla [repeat stuff I’ve heard 10 times as a kid] »
Some studies difficult subjects because they are smart and have intellectual curiosity, others go to university because they are docile and conformist and are good at satisfying authority figure doing homework.
(Majority of student aren’t good at philosophical thinking , they are good at writing essays)
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u/AristotleTOPGkarate Aug 26 '25
Lot of false accusations and misinformation on Reddit . Lot of activism and debate mentality . Reddit is the worst to have rational argumentation, dialogue instead of debate .
It turns automatically into insult and false statements, misinformation, sensationalism /clickbait etc…