Greetings gentle reader, I encountered two articles yesterday that gave me pause...one, responsibly labeled itself 'speculation' on the topic that extra-terestial lifeforms might be, er, gi-normous. (The rational being, larger creatures have longer lifespans, thereby encouraging the development of the brain.
Elephants (when not being hunted to an early grave) have/had for a long time a longer average lifespan than most humans but this is speculation. Whales, turtles and parrots also enjoy long lifespans but there are no recognizably sentient beings among any of them...using our understanding of sentience...
The second, and again, using our critical reasoning skills we have to 'assume' the average viewer knows the question was posed for 'entertainment purposes' (It was some producer's idea that people would be interested in knowing if poverty was 'hereditary.'
What rankles about this is the fact that the one percent truly believes they are 'exceptional' (and they desperately want YOU to believe that too!)
If we remove the 'stop-think' factor a rational person employs when viewing 'entertainment', you find the not particularly bright taking this rhetorical question to heart, and believing their less than stellar economic prospects were their parent's fault.
While it is 'true' that a child born to wealth has a better chance of enjoying a prosperous life than a child born to poverty (and in this, Morgan Freeman uses himself as an exception to the episode's 'genetic inheritance' meme.) left unbroken is the general perception that people with money are 'smarter' than the rest of us, which isn't true at all.
If 'smarts = prosperity' then where is Einstien Inc? There is no such place/company, conversely where are the intellectual works of JP Morgan (whose major accomplishment in life was to bankroll Thomas Edison.) They too do not exist.
(Why the average dummy thinks Einstien founded GE [a wholly owned subsidiary of the Morgan Guaranty Trust] is, er, baffling.)
It is NOT 'speculation' that poverty is directly proportional to the corruption/mismanagement of the civilization you live in.
Poverty, like money, is a human invention...therefore poverty is the by-product of money being 'mis-managed'. But this isn't particularly 'entertaining' considering the history of the impoverished has a rather murderous track record.
I share this because it rarely occurs to the young to question their circumstances...and they usually believe what their elders tell them, even if these elders are severely misinformed...(as the scientists on this particular episode of 'Through the Wormhole' were and most modern economists are as well!)
That said, it all starts with 'writing', the first step in sharing knowledge.
How unfortunate is it that those who control your 'perception' keep you and by extension yours, ignorant of the fact that poverty is NOT a 'natural state of affairs'.
Now I will return to my long time signature catch phrase,
Thank you for letting me inside your head.
Elephants (when not being hunted to an early grave) have/had for a long time a longer average lifespan than most humans but this is speculation. Whales, turtles and parrots also enjoy long lifespans but there are no recognizably sentient beings among any of them...using our understanding of sentience...
The second, and again, using our critical reasoning skills we have to 'assume' the average viewer knows the question was posed for 'entertainment purposes' (It was some producer's idea that people would be interested in knowing if poverty was 'hereditary.'
What rankles about this is the fact that the one percent truly believes they are 'exceptional' (and they desperately want YOU to believe that too!)
If we remove the 'stop-think' factor a rational person employs when viewing 'entertainment', you find the not particularly bright taking this rhetorical question to heart, and believing their less than stellar economic prospects were their parent's fault.
While it is 'true' that a child born to wealth has a better chance of enjoying a prosperous life than a child born to poverty (and in this, Morgan Freeman uses himself as an exception to the episode's 'genetic inheritance' meme.) left unbroken is the general perception that people with money are 'smarter' than the rest of us, which isn't true at all.
If 'smarts = prosperity' then where is Einstien Inc? There is no such place/company, conversely where are the intellectual works of JP Morgan (whose major accomplishment in life was to bankroll Thomas Edison.) They too do not exist.
(Why the average dummy thinks Einstien founded GE [a wholly owned subsidiary of the Morgan Guaranty Trust] is, er, baffling.)
It is NOT 'speculation' that poverty is directly proportional to the corruption/mismanagement of the civilization you live in.
Poverty, like money, is a human invention...therefore poverty is the by-product of money being 'mis-managed'. But this isn't particularly 'entertaining' considering the history of the impoverished has a rather murderous track record.
I share this because it rarely occurs to the young to question their circumstances...and they usually believe what their elders tell them, even if these elders are severely misinformed...(as the scientists on this particular episode of 'Through the Wormhole' were and most modern economists are as well!)
That said, it all starts with 'writing', the first step in sharing knowledge.
How unfortunate is it that those who control your 'perception' keep you and by extension yours, ignorant of the fact that poverty is NOT a 'natural state of affairs'.
Now I will return to my long time signature catch phrase,
Thank you for letting me inside your head.
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