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Lack of Critical Thinking is Key to the Corrupt Status Quo Maintaining Their Power

I hope to God you are not a troll, but I am gonna bite because I am more scared that you are not a troll.

OK, I will save you some years of agony and go ahead and help you out. You are being down-voted because your opinion on opinions is actually very wrong.

First off, your logic is full of fallacies. Study the fuck out of logical fallacies, please.Here’s a good website that trims the fat and puts it into a nice, clean format — but that site is severely lacking in detail. For that detail, here is a good book to start out with, called Critical Thinking. Critical thinking is not some willy nilly term your English professors used, but rather a very solid thought process used in thescientific method and formal logic. This article gives a very good explanation of the value of critical thinking on our culture. Critical thinking is what your opinions need and, as I will later show, what we all need to effectively handle our opinion-saturated media.

Now. On to your comment. Opinions can be right or wrong. Someone could have the opinion that smoking is good for you, whereas that’s obviously false. Someone could have the opinion that 2 + 2 = 5 but that’s obviously false. And someone could simply have the opinion that bacon tastes good, which is not true or false but just an opinion. Opinions are simply views or judgements about something not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Opinions and facts are not opposites, nor are they mutually exclusive.

Finally, please read this and watch the videos at the bottom. In short, the United States compulsory education system is a tool used by the government to condition, subordinate, and ultimately control the people. This is not some inane conspiracy theory — it is something academia is aware of but cannot do anything about (politicians and corporations have the money, not academics). By depriving students of critical thinking skills, students have turned into factory grade drones made to follow demands and not question authority. Students are manufactured to accept the sound-bite opinions they hear and see on the media as quality communication, whereas it is objectively bad argumentation. Thus, the unrelenting banter between both sides of the “political spectrum,” continually undermine communication and logic skills.

I hope that this information will be enlightening for you and it inspires continued learning. I fear, however, that you will question what I say and go on continuing thinking whatever it is you think. You will use what I say as evidence for your own opinion. This is called confirmation bias. You will also probably claim that, “All knowledge is relative, so what makes you think you’re right?” But then you are committing a relativist fallacy. But in the end, when you discover that the knowledge I provided is actually of great value, do not beat yourself down — you are not stupid. Intelligence is a vastly understudied realm and it is silly to label people as stupid or smart. Just embrace knowledge and try to soak up everything you can, attributing your success to your efforts and not your brains.

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I want to find/create a community that does not use Internet

I’ve ended my extended Internet abstinence about a month ago, but I’m still severely cutting back on my Internet use. Overall, it went well, but I think it could have gone a lot better if I was living in an entire community of people who didn’t use Internet (do you know of any?). Doing it on my own felt like living in Brave New World — I’m assuming you’ve read Huxley’s masterpiece. I really identified with the character who’s originally from the savage lands and starts living in the BNW world. He felt so overwhelmed by all the soma and the people addicted to the soma that killed himself at the end. Don’t worry, I’m not nearly that stressed out. But it’s still interesting to think about: mindless Internet games, videos, social media drama, tv are simply today’s soma. It’s effectively sedating our culture — I hate it.

Oh, and Google’s “Project Glass”

Those glasses that shove a computer in your face? That thing is the devil incarnate. People will just sit around watching cat videos all day. Brave New World much?!

That was metonymy: cat videos are just an example of the larger phenomenon. We’re just becoming more and more a sound-bite culture, obsessed with instant gratification, constant novelty, and high stimuli. We’re already so absorbed in our phones and computers, reading shit articles, daily news drama, watching thirty second YouTube videos just for entertainment. Even the “educational stuff” is pop facts with no rational argumentation or dialectic or sustained focus. It sucks us into our iPhones and not into each other… people are getting so addicted: mindless Internet games, videos, social media drama, tv are effectively sedating our culture — I hate it.

Nonetheless, here’s why I’m posting. I really, really want to find any communities, regions, or social communes that don’t use Internet. I’d like to find one — or create one if it doesn’t exist.

Yeah, I could go to a remote, mountainous region in the Himalayas, but I’d rather not butt in on a people’s culture like that. I’d rather not contribute to globalization. Instead, something somewhere in North-east USA? Actually, I’d be interested to know of any place regardless of geography.

I found this guy who lived on his own with no Internet in Cuba and decided to try to replicate it in the USA. I wish him luck. Here’s an excerpt of his blog. Oh, and here’s the Reddit post from which I found the blog post, which has quality critical comments (quality as in not like the unrestrained hatred one often finds on the Internet).

“I moved into a new apartment at the start of April, and decided to try an experiment: not having an internet connection.

When I tell people that I don’t have internet, they assume that it’s because I just moved in, and haven’t set it up.Nope, don’t want it.

Is it because I can’t afford it? Nope, don’t want it.

At this point, people become a little confused. Why would I not want an internet connection?

Anytime everyone believes the same thing without question, there’s a good chance it’s something that we as a society haven’t thought through. This can be a good idea for things that have stood the test of time. But if something is new, we can’t afford to accept or reject an idea without question.

The internet snuck up on us. It’s extremely useful, but we haven’t thought through how we should use it. It’s gotten steadily more enticing…there’s so much more you can do and read.

If you want, you can spend your whole day on the internet. And that’s a problem. I think it’s a bigger problem than most people are willing to admit: many people have become internet addicts.

I was one. Here’s my story.”

So, know of any accessible community that doesn’t use Internet?