/lit/ - Literature

i've thought about this alot. to me, it seems that the most educated may or may not be the most 'intelligent,' depending upon how you measure intelligence, but they definitely are not the ones that pay attention. as the old adage goes, it doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't pay attention.
think of the people you know that have spent years and years in the educational system. i'm talking people with masters degrees, doctorates, those in academia, etc etc. they are easily some of the most gullible and irrational people in the west. just think of the last few years and their emotional and over the top reactions to the manipulative propaganda pushed by the news corporations:
-covid: covid had a 99.9% survival rate, even before these new and milder variants. yet everyone shit their pants over it, wearing masks in public, taking experimental drugs, shaming anyone that didn't buy into the narrative, etc. those with degrees tended to do this significantly more than, say, hillbilly americans, who saw through the media mayhem and knew it was another flu-like virus.
-BLM: think of all the virtue signalling and moral posturing universities go through to appease themselves over racial issues in america. africans are handed special treatment in every aspect of life, from education to scholarships to loans to welfare to job hiring to police brutality. in every measurable aspect, they are treated with kid gloves, and receive preferential treatment. but the news played a few stories from the minority of cases where a white was committing violence against a black, and the whole country goes up in flames. who was the most likely to fall for this obvious dupe? the 'educated,' of course. they are the ones attending the riots, putting blm signs in their yard, spewing their retardation all over social media, all falling for the obvious lie that the people who commit all the crimes but still get all the scholarships are somehow oppressed.
i could go on, but you get the point. the more educated someone is, the more susceptible they are to media propaganda.
why is this?
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