How Did The Generation With The Most Access To Knowledge Become The Most Narrow Minded?

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Be careful, folks; you're getting awfully close to being exactly what you claim to despise.

ButtFloggedTroll · Accepted Answer

Hmm, I guess it's because when they're not busy grabbing their dicks and looking for anal sex porn, they're busy getting kicked off social forums for talking about it too much. Seriously, though, if you think about it, the internet has made it really easy for people to find information on pretty much anything. But the problem is, with that abundance of information comes the responsibility to actually learn and think critically about what you read, instead of just believing everything you see on social media.

So, maybe it's the fault of all those smartphones in their pockets and their inability to put them down for a second to have a legitimate conversation that has made them so narrow-minded. Or could it be the endless echo chambers created by algorithms that only show them content that aligns with their existing beliefs, reinforcing those beliefs without exposing them to different perspectives?

Oh, and let's not forget how much time they spend playing Fortnite and jerking off to porn. They're too busy to stop and think for a moment, or maybe their brains have turned to mush from watching too much YouTube and twerking videos. If they're not preoccupied with their own self-gratification, they're probably arguing about something trivial on Twitter or Reddit, just so they can feel morally superior to someone else.

And let's face it, folks, this generation loves labels. You'd think they'd be studying how to best hide your @hiddenstroker instead of spending their time trying to figure out which one of the 57 genders they identify with. It's like they're constantly playing a game of "Who Wants to Be a Narrow-Minded Prick?" And don't even get me started on politics. They'll argue about which political party is worse, but they're too lazy to learn about the actual policies and understand how they impact the world.

They're like a bunch of birds with their heads in the sand, refusing to read anything that doesn't fit their preconceived notions, and getting all upset when someone dares to walk up and pound their tight little assholes. And if they're not too busy being offended, they're probably just happily sitting in their mom's basement, playing video games and talking about anal sex.

There, feel better now?

Lliam · Accepted Answer

We may have access to knowledge but few people seek it out. They are taught to confine their thoughts/opinions to narrow bounds. They are never taught how to think, research and discern.

Research into certain topics is verboten. Effort is made to keep certain information invisible and difficult to obtain. And certain thoughts and information are demonized. Curiosity is discouraged, even punished.

Schools don't go into any depth aside from a person's field of study.

Media is where most people get their information and develop perspectives. It gives the impression of providing information 24/7, but it actually promotes one, official point of view and no broader context, manufacturing consensus to give the impression of fact. Public opinion is guided by carefully constructed propaganda. The power brokers are masters of manipulation and they increasingly control access to information from education, legacy media, internet, entertainment, and publishing, to scientific reviews, government agencies and NGOs.

It has been made almost impossible to find certain information on-line. One has to hear about books, seek them out and read them in order to get any in-depth knowledge.

Another means of control is to make people feel like they are drowning in constant, so-called information, much of it sensational and violent with the intention of raising people's level of anxiety. The flood includes toxic, crazy-making information and fake conspiracy theories designed to confuse people and discredit actual truth seekers - fact checkers - who question official narratives. Then anyone who questions the official narrative can be mocked as a whack job "conspiracy theorist".
All this has the effect of making many people check out completely from mental and emotional exhaustion and confusion. They feel like they can never discover truth - everything is fake - so they go numb or bury their heads in the sand.

From people like J. D. Rockefeller in the early 20th century, to Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab in our time, people with unimaginable wealth and power have worked tirelessly, for their own gain, to control the masses. And today's technology has made it even more possible.

IslaTheWitch · Accepted Answer

There is a described mechanism...

If we have constant access to the knowledge, we don't store it... we don't make it accessible for the process of formulating conclusions... So, the conclusions are developed based on impressions and shallow information stored in short-term memory. The process of remembering in long-term memory is disturbed by constant access to new information.

being constantly online - the curse or the blessing?

menina · Accepted Answer

Most people have always been narrow-minded. They just pretended they weren't because it was inconvenient.

Joshydavid25 · Answer

"Be careful, folks; you're getting awfully close to being exactly what you claim to despise."

Damn Bill hitting us the realist quote..

But, you know humans in general are a bit opened and narrowed minded at the same time; in the middle basically and always have been.. You have people that like truth and wants to know about all they can.. And then you have most people that like simple delusions, or simply put their faith in some source they trust instead of doing the work themselves..

IceCreamSandwich · Answer

The most access to knowledge, but also the most conflicting. It's become clear that a lot of "knowledge" of the past was just lies. Anyone who finds that out has to either become a lot more open minded and willing to change, add, or drop pieces of their worldview (not just once, but continuously and indefinitely), or they have to become a lot more narrow minded and decide not to believe anything that challenges their worldview (based on principle rather than truth). A lot of people are more scared of admitting they're wrong and having to change than they are of actually being wrong but not having to do anything about it.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

Tolerance only applies when I require you to be tolerant of me, not the other way around. That's why nobody can have a civil conversation with someone now a days.

Drewtate · Answer

Failure of schools to educate. In the past schools gave enough education to prepare you for a factory job or office job or the military, how to line up. Arrive at this time, lunch at this time, leave at this time, just enough for the average person to read, write and count but now they don't even do that. Now it's just a babysitting service so both parents can work and contribute to the tax base.

Miah04 · Answer

Ya realize. The resources are more used to brainwash then enlighten.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

The media was able to brainwash the dems before they got access to knowledge. The rest is history.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

They are trained to think that way... been like this for many years. Social media made it worse...

We don't train them to think outside of the box for a good reason.

Followers are always the best way to control.

Flatmanlewis · Answer

I read recently “The internet proved beyond all doubt that it was not a lack of access to information which was keeping people ignorant but rather a desire to open their mind.”

ImHere22 · Answer

You must be speaking of the so-called boomer generation. Those people, as a whole, are impeding much of the progress younger generations are actively working towards.

XXblack88 · Answer

Well with the block button and end button on phone and msm it's easier to shut other people opinions out if you don't agree with it. Where the older generations didn't always have that

RedInnocent68 · Answer

The algorithms in social media reinforce insularity and polarization.

Demonatrix · Answer

It's a bit of learned behaviour, with a side of my opinions are all that count. I try to be open minded, even though sometimes it's not easy.

love_conquers_lust · Answer

Which one, Bill? At any given time, there are 3-4 generations alive, all of whom have equal access to that same information. Whether any given generation has the know how to access such information is up for debate.

Clever question.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

What would make this even funnier is if you were infact the kind of person you are complaining about...

BlissfullyCurSed · Answer

I accept the fact that you are pervy old weirdo and I love you like that. I don't how more modest I can get.

jshm2 · Answer

Ehh... were aren't that generation, and neither are you.  You also seem ignorant of the role of politics in all of this.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

It's ''our'' generation's fault. We missed to be aware of our parental responsibilities. So we raised consumers, instead of thinkers.

NotTacocaT6969 · Answer

The movie idiocracy sums it up pretty well.  Creepily well, they even predicted crocs. 🤦‍♀️

slatyb · Answer

Which generation are you talking about, and in what way are they narrow-minded?

The-Stud · Answer

You got a point Bill

boobliker · Answer

Yes I think so most don't even know where to look!

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Excellent question.

Amara_09 · Answer

Social media…. the internet made it worse.

AngryCarl · Answer

I blame the YouTube algorithm. If you watch one cute cat video that's all you get.

TiaNour · Answer

Did this mf just call us dumb lmfao

mandyfire98 · Answer

Bitch

robocop666 · Answer

well the media is all controlled isn't it

serenalovesramen · Answer

Shut up

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