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To: stsimon who wrote (334197)	4/20/2017 3:44:15 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 542077

I'm talking about in the aggregate. You can always find exceptions, or situations where there are intervening variables that prove apparent contradictions to the thesis of the importance of education e.g. Germany during the second world war, Japan, or North Korea and Russia today. But rise above the earth and looked down like a bird and with your mind's eye, try and follow the evolution, the progression of civilization starting 12,000 years ago. The big picture. We figured out how to grow food and domesticate animals, then we build villages and start trade and give up our nomadic life. Then we need to invent math and written language for trade and social structure. The math and written language are extensions of our brain. The written language allows us to transfer information precisely and within a timeline. 10% of Athens was educated and they explored their life and debated things like democracy and ethics and engaged in great science even to the point of figuring out the circumference of the earth to within a few miles. Then the barbarians burned 99% of all the Greek books and all the libraries and by the time of the birth of Christ we are back to being generally barbarians. For the next 1500 years, we almost become illiterate as a species again; and then Gutenberg invented the printing press and a few years later millions of books are printed and that leads us to the age of Enlightenment. We start experimenting and developing our science and pushing back at the church dogma and things like heresy. We finally put together a constitutional democracy in the United States and then we explode intellectually and socially e.g. making things like habeas corpus law. But it has only been in the last century that we got equal rights for women and got rid of institutional racism and studied sophisticated social systems figured out by great minds like Max Weber. If you look around the world today, in the big picture, you can see different levels of intellectual sophistication. On silicon investor it is easy to contrast the conservative threads against the liberal threads. On the conservative threads, most of the posts are about a sentence and usually say something silly or inaccurate. On the liberal threads like this one, the post began with an introductory paragraph a body and a concluding paragraph and their facts will be correct. The big picture.

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