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Giannis has moved their entire family from Milwaukee to Greece
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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1074748" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>I largely blame the internet. It's a resource that makes it easy for people to become as educated as they want to be, or as uninformed as they want to be. If you want to just coast through life, not work hard to learn new information about the world or what is happening in it on a day to day basis - just be entertained - then Facebook and Tik Tok are there for you. Let someone else do the thinking, and check in every now and then to see what those people think so that you know what <em>you're</em> supposed to think. Too many people just repeat talking points, and are unable to explain what those quotes mean.</p><p></p><p>In previous generations, being poorly informed and uneducated came with a cost - you usually didn't do as well in life as people who paid attention in life and acquired the skill of making good decisions. If you were someone who consistently made poor decisions, you probably weren't going to do well in life. </p><p></p><p>I don't think that's as true anymore, and I think a big part of that is that people have learned to rely on the internet to make their decisions instead of working out the problems on their own. The internet makes it easy to just follow the crowd.</p><p></p><p>I also blame the collapse of our educational system, which also has been eroded by the internet. Students don't really need to study anymore; they just let the internet do their homework. Too many of them come out of school never having actually <em>learned</em> a damned thing, but that'd be a whole post just by itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1074748, member: 18006"] I largely blame the internet. It's a resource that makes it easy for people to become as educated as they want to be, or as uninformed as they want to be. If you want to just coast through life, not work hard to learn new information about the world or what is happening in it on a day to day basis - just be entertained - then Facebook and Tik Tok are there for you. Let someone else do the thinking, and check in every now and then to see what those people think so that you know what [I]you're[/I] supposed to think. Too many people just repeat talking points, and are unable to explain what those quotes mean. In previous generations, being poorly informed and uneducated came with a cost - you usually didn't do as well in life as people who paid attention in life and acquired the skill of making good decisions. If you were someone who consistently made poor decisions, you probably weren't going to do well in life. I don't think that's as true anymore, and I think a big part of that is that people have learned to rely on the internet to make their decisions instead of working out the problems on their own. The internet makes it easy to just follow the crowd. I also blame the collapse of our educational system, which also has been eroded by the internet. Students don't really need to study anymore; they just let the internet do their homework. Too many of them come out of school never having actually [I]learned[/I] a damned thing, but that'd be a whole post just by itself. [/QUOTE]
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