You're pretending that there's no difference in intelligence/knowledge/skills between individuals or groups of people. There are differences. Can we stop pretending that there's no difference between a college educated European, your average American who reads at a 7th grade level, and a 3rd world farmer who has no perspective outside their small village?

> a 3rd world farmer who has no perspective outside their small village?

I think this is a disappearing breed. Ubiquitous cell coverage means everyone knows what is happening everywhere now.

> Ubiquitous cell coverage means everyone knows what is happening everywhere now.

I think this assumes facts not in evidence. Just because someone is "connected" doesn't mean they're automatically informed. As we see in first world countries, there's a lot of fucking morons that only listen to comfortable lies rather than uncomfortable truths.

There's also industrial production of bullshit peddled by disingenuous actors taking advantage of that fact. Fleecing rubes can be very profitable.

The very problem being discussed is Facebook trying to absolve themselves of bullshit peddling by blaming everyone else. They're blaming people for believing shit Facebook put in front of them under the guise of news. They're also fine taking money to promote bullshit as "news". Yet it's society's fault that they believed everything labeled news Facebook put in front of them.

To that effect, its worth pointing out that in many developing nations, facebook IS the internet. To say that this compounds all of the issues already discussed in this thread is a fairly drastic understatement.

Still a lot of people getting their crops burned because they knew about science and managed to grow a crop, and everyone else didn't and thinks they're a witch

"Stupid people don't exist" is a bold take.

That's not what the parent was claiming. The grandparent was claiming that most people are stupid. The parent was pointing out that most people are not stupid. Some people are, and many people have various biases and preconceptions that make it easier for them to be manipulated into believing misinformation.

> "Those people" does not exist. It's just an illusion of your own limited perspective. We are on this together and calling people stupid not it is true, not it helps.

I don't understand what's going on on this site. This is the second time recently I've come across someone claiming a comment didn't say something that's essentially copied verbatim mere centimeters higher on the monitor. It's basically in the same eyeful.

Hell, the commenter even added the word "stupid", which wasn't in the parent comment.

I was saying critical thinking is not as common a skill as you may think. Most people aren't stupid, but most people ACT stupid by acting without thinking.

I agree here. My observation is that most of humanity is rational but acts on limited or incorrect information. If you can provide truthful and complete information (in a digestible form), humanity will do just fine.

I stated the deficit is critical thinking skills. You editing the quote to make it sound as though I said all people are simply "challenged" which is disingenuous.