There's something that really boils my blood about teaching people wrong. Knowledge impacts your ability to make informed choices about the material world. Everyone should be given the most clear-cut model of their current understanding of the world, or in a way, you're taking away their ability to safely make informed choices. There's something very evil about that to me. It's like taking someone freedom away.
it’s a form of abuse. The difference in thought patterns between a person raised that way and a person who was given a proper education are palpable sometimes.
Taking their freedom away is a good phrasing, they have had their thoughts shaped against their will.
It is absolutely taking their freedom away. Informed consent is important, but your consent cannot be informed if you have been systemically indoctrinated into bullshit heuristics and myths and haven't had an opportunity to really develop your critical thinking skills. It's a profound counter to popular power, though not because they are "brainwashed" as such as some might say (not you, necessarily), but because their mental development gets completely stunted. It can be surprisingly easy to get someone to abandon a lot of this shit if they are placed in a different environment that doesn't reinforce it, but that doesn't make up for all the education they didn't receive that they should have. It's crippling the population in a way not unlike the chronic lead poisoning does in other cases.
There's something that really boils my blood about teaching people wrong. Knowledge impacts your ability to make informed choices about the material world. Everyone should be given the most clear-cut model of their current understanding of the world, or in a way, you're taking away their ability to safely make informed choices. There's something very evil about that to me. It's like taking someone freedom away.
it’s a form of abuse. The difference in thought patterns between a person raised that way and a person who was given a proper education are palpable sometimes.
Taking their freedom away is a good phrasing, they have had their thoughts shaped against their will.
It is absolutely taking their freedom away. Informed consent is important, but your consent cannot be informed if you have been systemically indoctrinated into bullshit heuristics and myths and haven't had an opportunity to really develop your critical thinking skills. It's a profound counter to popular power, though not because they are "brainwashed" as such as some might say (not you, necessarily), but because their mental development gets completely stunted. It can be surprisingly easy to get someone to abandon a lot of this shit if they are placed in a different environment that doesn't reinforce it, but that doesn't make up for all the education they didn't receive that they should have. It's crippling the population in a way not unlike the chronic lead poisoning does in other cases.