[s5300]

No, no friend, you are actually wrong.

I have recently found that a sizeable amount of people will completely seriously tell you to your face that Wikipedia isn't facts and anything you find on the internet (that doesn't conform to their views/gives them confirmation biS) is lies and propaganda by big tech.

It's insane, and there's no fighting it. Really, they will not budge in the slightest. I cannot think of anything that can possibly save things other than massive education reform.... and given the fact education (in the US) has been being completely dismantled in the past 40 so years, I do not think that savior is coming.

[LocalH]

My father is like this. If he already agrees with what something says, then he’ll parrot it around. But, if he doesn’t, then “anyone can put anything on the Internet”

[forcry]

> tell you to your face that Wikipedia isn't facts

It is not. Why do you think so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU

[xyzzyz]

> and given the fact education (in the US) has been being completely dismantled in the past 40 so year

Actually teaching objective facts, maybe to some degree yes, but the education system today is the strongest and best funded it has ever been.

[pas]

Yet it is completely useless. Doesn't teach critical thinking, epistemology, etc. There's a "science" class, and that's it. The rest is lexical knowledge memorization about past stuff (wars, plays, novels, poems, politics).

[nefitty]

It makes sense that this generates political strife as citizens age through school and out into industry. The current world economy is dependent on knowledge work. Knowledge work requires an ability to interweave, discover and generate novel mental models. If our economy is not generating these types of workers, and labor becomes supplanted by machines, the margin-of-opportunity will continue to decrease as machines take over knowledge work.

The economies and states who are in control at the logical end of that technological progression will be the ones that decide what the future of humanity looks like. Do we get UBI? Do we get social nets? Do we get human rights?