Posted by dereklane on June 1, 2019, 8:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Some"
Re your first paragraph, that's a rule of thumb for the majority of society (no facts, hard or fast). What it tells me is About the company you keep vs the company I keep. My friends are proles, some educated some not, all intelligent in different ways.
In oz, the people least inclined to being fooled by the media and govt are the indigenous. Why? Not because they're overly educated (they are not), but because they are the ones screwed over at every turn. They know what liars look like and they know when they're being lied to.
Going back to brexit, this is why for me the educated remainers are showing their ignorance too; it seems they can't see the lie any more than those they scorn. They're not at the bottom of the heap and so are more rather than less susceptible to the weaving of tales that authority does so well.
You're off on the diet thing too, probably for similar reasons. It's not lack of education that gives poor diet but lack of choices. It's cheaper to buy shit than to make a healthy meal. £1 for a frozen pizza, £3-£4 for a meal with actual food groups represented. When you are living that close to the bone, you'll understand, but not before.
It looks to me increasingly like you're trying to justify a poorly thought through post way earlier. But you are lot get closer, just more muddled. Wouldn't it make sense just to think maybe checking privilege and realising that what the chattering in your social circles offers is similar to the casual bigotry in other social circles (both are forms of bigotry, btw) but angled in different directions? Thinking that formal education opens one's mind is a foolish thought. Thought opens one's mind, formal education is either a means to an end (a good job) or a useful tool to someone whose mind is already open, and who happens to have the funds to follow their whimsy. It's no more or less. If you've found only dullards outside educated circles my suggestion is this; try to socialise more outside your comfort zone and don't be so quick to judge. You'll find a lot more truly astonishing minds out there when you do.