I dunno about this. I think our current society by its very nature has proven that George Orwell was incorrect in this regard. Factually, it's more likely this:
"If leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become stupefied by mindless mass entertainment and extra-large servings of fatty foods; and having done this, they would hang on tightly to the priviledged minority who ensures their continued diet of mind-numbing pop culture and Super-sized SUVs."
Yes, schools teach kids these things. But consider the alternative. What kind of society would we have if kids were taught that they didn't have to do anything on a schedule, that they didn't have to be on time and organized, that they didn't have a place in a power structure, that they didn't have to respect authority?
The problem, as always, is treating the very smart kids as if they were the same as the very wild kids. It's your very attitude that turns us into gun-weilding psychos. Well, let me qualify that, I'm past that and I imagine you've been there too.
But, repeat after me: growing up does NOT give you the right to forget. If you were a person, that person is still there. Just remember what school did to you, and try to figure out ways to make it different - you might see that making schools have official policies on the highly intelligent visa-vi classroom behavior might help a few small things.
You know, I've thought quite a bit about the implications of these sorts of scarcity-destroying technologies, and I've realized something very sad for most of us. What will be the last obvious commodity of true scarcity? Beautiful, entertaining people to hand out with and have sex with.
The geek urge toward utopia will leave a world where the only thing materially valued is exactly what they don't have, much like an expensive private school social environment of today except global and total.
Picture it. It will be an all encompassing popularity contest.
Kind of sucks for the guys who end world hunger by self replicating nano devices, huh?
But I don't see how belief in a deity is in any way inherently inferior to belief in science. Both science and organized religion are a matter of faith -- you
have to accept what you are tolded by the more learned "clergy."
No, for christ's sakes. Science means that there are no clergy, just other humans testing each other's theories. Are you from Kansas or something?
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I dunno about this. I think our current society by its very nature has proven that George Orwell was incorrect in this regard. Factually, it's more likely this:
"If leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become stupefied by mindless mass entertainment and extra-large servings of fatty foods; and having done this, they would hang on tightly to the priviledged minority who ensures their continued diet of mind-numbing pop culture and Super-sized SUVs."
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Yes, schools teach kids these things. But consider the alternative. What kind of society would we have if kids were taught that they didn't have to do anything on a schedule, that they didn't have to be on time and organized, that they didn't have a place in a power structure, that they didn't have to respect authority?
The problem, as always, is treating the very smart kids as if they were the same as the very wild kids. It's your very attitude that turns us into gun-weilding psychos. Well, let me qualify that, I'm past that and I imagine you've been there too.
But, repeat after me: growing up does NOT give you the right to forget. If you were a person, that person is still there. Just remember what school did to you, and try to figure out ways to make it different - you might see that making schools have official policies on the highly intelligent visa-vi classroom behavior might help a few small things.
MarcYou know, I've thought quite a bit about the implications of these sorts of scarcity-destroying technologies, and I've realized something very sad for most of us. What will be the last obvious commodity of true scarcity? Beautiful, entertaining people to hand out with and have sex with.
The geek urge toward utopia will leave a world where the only thing materially valued is exactly what they don't have, much like an expensive private school social environment of today except global and total.
Picture it. It will be an all encompassing popularity contest.
Kind of sucks for the guys who end world hunger by self replicating nano devices, huh?
...If I were your son, I would grow into open comtempt of your life and worldview.
But I don't see how belief in a deity is in any way inherently inferior to belief in science. Both science and organized religion are a matter of faith -- you have to accept what you are tolded by the more learned "clergy."
No, for christ's sakes. Science means that there are no clergy, just other humans testing each other's theories. Are you from Kansas or something?
Get a life