/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9356266
>The only solution, as you and others have touched on here, is to educate the masses. To promote higher level thinking. But there are many complications, as one might think.
I agree. I have vivid memories of back when I was in school and will describe it here. I feel like nobody talks about it and it's sort of a taboo topic to state how things were bluntly

>The "cool kids" were most often the ones who didn't give a shit about school and focused on sports
>The exceptions to this rule were the intelligent kids who were also rich - only richness can make up for your primary "thing" being intelligence, since it gives you social confidence
>Ignorance was put forward as a virtue. And probably not even in a malicious way, but as a self defense mechanism
>This creates a situation where it appears that many people are putting forward ignorance and a focus on sports as a virtue, when really it was probably a self defense mechanism at the beginning, but it morphed into an actual advantage and an increased ability to get girls

Here's how it was ranked, in next post

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