I hope the US house has been carefully watching the parliament in South Korea and learning things.
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I hope the US house has been carefully watching the parliament in South Korea and learning things.
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I hope the US house has been carefully watching the parliament in South Korea and learning things.
I generally have an irrational hope they are learning things... really ANY things ... but this is one in particular that they might be able to apply to their lives.
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I generally have an irrational hope they are learning things... really ANY things ... but this is one in particular that they might be able to apply to their lives.
@futurebird given how little science, law and history they appear to have learned, I don't hold out much hope...
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@futurebird given how little science, law and history they appear to have learned, I don't hold out much hope...
but when a person knows so few things, learning even one thing could be a whole new world for them.
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I generally have an irrational hope they are learning things... really ANY things ... but this is one in particular that they might be able to apply to their lives.
What if we had ... a "congressional school" basically 3 days a week for a couple of hours they'd take little mini-courses on various topics. Things like:
* The history of roads.
* Health and Human aging.
* Food Preservation through the Ages
* The Geological Wonders of the World
* Infant Mortality through History
* The history of Plumbing and Water Treatment
* Mass Extinctions
* The History of Book-Binding and Information Preservation
* The Barrel: Trade Technology of the PastANYTHING
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What if we had ... a "congressional school" basically 3 days a week for a couple of hours they'd take little mini-courses on various topics. Things like:
* The history of roads.
* Health and Human aging.
* Food Preservation through the Ages
* The Geological Wonders of the World
* Infant Mortality through History
* The history of Plumbing and Water Treatment
* Mass Extinctions
* The History of Book-Binding and Information Preservation
* The Barrel: Trade Technology of the PastANYTHING
Part of it would be about learning things they might apply to their work as legislators. But another agenda would be to simply impress on them the vast complexity of human knowledge in a way that I often find lacking in powerful people... who often give the impression of thinking they know plenty enough about everything and thus seem to lack the basic curiosity required to do such a job well at all.
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What if we had ... a "congressional school" basically 3 days a week for a couple of hours they'd take little mini-courses on various topics. Things like:
* The history of roads.
* Health and Human aging.
* Food Preservation through the Ages
* The Geological Wonders of the World
* Infant Mortality through History
* The history of Plumbing and Water Treatment
* Mass Extinctions
* The History of Book-Binding and Information Preservation
* The Barrel: Trade Technology of the PastANYTHING
@futurebird I would also add a mandatory work program cleaning toilets at a fast food restaurant, working customer support phone lines, and waiting tables in a diner. Because a lot of these people don't know what it is like to work these kind of jobs and once you have, it changes your perspective.
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@futurebird I would also add a mandatory work program cleaning toilets at a fast food restaurant, working customer support phone lines, and waiting tables in a diner. Because a lot of these people don't know what it is like to work these kind of jobs and once you have, it changes your perspective.
Absolutely. Gain some appreciation of all of the basic tasks that make the world function, and what its like to do them.
It seems like I'm just being mean, but I really think that ... just not knowing anything is a big problem with this class of people.
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What if we had ... a "congressional school" basically 3 days a week for a couple of hours they'd take little mini-courses on various topics. Things like:
* The history of roads.
* Health and Human aging.
* Food Preservation through the Ages
* The Geological Wonders of the World
* Infant Mortality through History
* The history of Plumbing and Water Treatment
* Mass Extinctions
* The History of Book-Binding and Information Preservation
* The Barrel: Trade Technology of the PastANYTHING
@futurebird
15 years ago, I would have agreed very strongly with all this.but here's the thing: the availability of good explainations peaked in about 2016, and while it has declined, it hasn't declined that much.
I no longer think ignorance is the primary problem. I've become convinced that the reason fascists support deadly policies is that killing people is their goal. That's the mental model that explains every thing the republicans do.
