SBGK;683796 Wrote: > so what I should be thinking is that the Touch cannot be improved upon, > is that correct ? > > Have you ever noticed how vehemently people react when you question > something they believe in instead of ever being able to have an > intelligent discussion with him or her? In the below video, Chris > Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, author, and war > correspondent, nails the reason that explains why it is so difficult to > change a persons mind when they are committed to believing something > even when they are confronted with a mountain of evidence that points > to the contrary. Chris states that universities have stripped away > humanities and other courses that develop critical thinking skills and > instead, due to the historical influences of men like Andrew Carnegie > and John D. Rockefeller, focus on teaching young men and women what to > think instead of how to think. > > > > Like the proverb that states we have two ears and only one mouth so we > should listen twice as much as we talk, when we are confronted with > actually having our views challenged, many among us fail to listen, > fail to analyze, fail to think, and we instead immediately open our > mouths in defense without ever seriously considering the contrary > information, often in factual form, that has been presented to us. All > of us, including yours truly, have been guilty of responding > insensitively and unintelligently in this manner, and I believe that > there is a reason for this type of response. The powers that be have > used education against us by employing teaching methods within > institutional academia that condition us to automatically dismiss any > notion that might conflict with our internal belief systems that THEY > have programmed into us. If you believe that this notion is > far-fetched, consider that from 1900 to 1920, at a time when the > direction of American education was very much still being molded, > Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller incredibly spent more money > than the entire US government in funding and building the education > system to meet their specifications and wishes. > > > > Have you ever thought about why repetition, an integral construct in > the effectiveness of brainwashing, is also an integral construct in > most institutions of academia in every country of the world? Could > education institutions possibly be serving as re-education camps? > Should not true learning involve students questioning professors, > students questioning students, and professors questioning students not > just to repeat and regurgitate pre-packaged responses as is so often > the case, but also to critically analyze and to defend one's positions > and arguments? The Powers That Be (TPTB) that attend the Bilderberg > conference must secretly smile and laugh behind closed doors at the > unthinking nature that they have been able to instill within us. > Refuse to accept something as fact just because an authority figure, > whether a professor, the Vatican, or politician, told you to believe > it, and automatically many amongst the sheep will accuse one of > pandering to conspiracy theories, even when one can present many facts > that support ones opposition view much more strongly than the widely > accepted view. > > > > Because universities are so focused on teaching us what to think > instead of how to think, this dumbing down process has produced many > media figures and talk show hosts that respond to any questioning of > their beliefs with censorship, an attempt to talk over opposition > views, or with infantile ad hominem attacks, no matter how cogent and > eloquently expressed the opposition view may be. When I lived in Japan, > I learned of a Japanese proverb that states, The nail that sticks out > gets hammered down, as if uniqueness and individuality were > undesirable traits. Perhaps this may be the case as the status quo > views us, their subjects, but certainly humanity should strive to > achieve creativity and foster critical thought in order to establish a > more moral society and to root out corruption. Furthermore, the > deliberate destruction of curricula in institutional academia that > fosters critical thinking skills has given way to hero worship and > learned helplessness instead of self-determination and self-reliance. > Again, the status quo delights in the hero culture we have built today. > Hero worship leaves one longing for salvation to come on the back of > some mythical hero without any commitment or accountability from the > masses. The status quo delight in the hero culture that they have built > in the minds of the masses as they know that longing for salvation to > come from someone else will leave people in a state of learned > helplessness-induced inertia and thus create an effective barrier from > the manifestation of a "peasant" revolt. > > > > As long as we believe a hero can save us, we will not act and take > control of our own fate, and all the easier it is for the powers that > be to control us. Have you ever noticed how often someone will defend > every fault of their countrys President, a huge pop star, or a star > athlete as passionately as they would defend their own family if you > should dare criticize their hero figure? From a logical standpoint, > such defenses are the definition of irrational, as no one can truly > know anything substantial or substantive about the character or true > nature of a public figure with whom they have not spent a single hour. > But yet people very frequently subscribe to the absolutely absurd > belief that they know the character of their hero intimately and will > defend this persons honor (or dishonor as it may be in many cases) to > the end of time. In closing, in addition to Chris Hedges video, I will > leave you with a video I posted nearly a year-and-a-half ago in which I > discuss ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenovs discourse on ideological subversion and > how such tactics can produce sheeple that will invariably obey and > believe what they are told. Hopefully this will help us identify the > ideological subversive tactics that are being deployed against us today > all over the world and help all of us to transform into more open-minded > people willing to consider alternate viewpoints other than the ones that > "the powers that be" commanded us to embrace. > > http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/lack-critical-thinking-key-corrupt-status-quo-maintaining-their-power
WTF? Nobody in this discussion was suggesting that there is no way to improve on the touch. Some might have been suggesting that certain kinds of tweaks are pure voodoo, and I agree with that. Your screed, insofar as it makes any sense, seems to be some kind of appeal to post-modernist "all truths are equally valid" philosophizing. There is a nice little ad hominem: "look how closed minded my adversaries are" (justified by pure assertion). Kind of funny that you mention ad hominems, since that is about the only content in the pile of gibberish you gifted us with. You are actually the one reacting negatively when _your_ cherished beliefs in cargo cult engineering are denigrated, so again, it's kind of funny you bring that up. With respect to the stuff about learned helplessness, degradation of curricula, etc, well that may all be true. But wtf bearing does it have to the discussion at hand? Oh, that's right, NONE AT ALL. If it's meant as a sort of sorry underhanded jab at the educational attainments of your interlocutors, well it just reflects badly on you that you don't even have the audacity to call us uneducated poltroons. In any event, I feel confident in my graduate degree (in engineering, such a sad waste, I guess, when I could have been studying phrenology, or whatever it is you studied) to just laugh it off. Your most recent "contribution" to this thread can best be likened to a pool of drunkard's vomit that a dog has taken a shit in. -- totoro sb3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 + rel storm 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918
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