[extropy-chat] change of topic

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Ned Late <nedlt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> These are first-rate suggestions. And perhaps let
> certain children 'merely' obtain decent employment
> and not be comprehensively educated until they are
> in their late teens & twenties? 

That's already happening.  One problem is, education
isn't just a tool, it's an innoculation.  There are
those who prey upon the adult uneducated, and their
first move (if they want a long-term victim) is often
to get their prey to reject any further education.
Say, by painting "intellectuals" as elitists who
don't see the truth that the uneducated are lead to
believe, and have little concern (or even active
disdain) for the uneducated.  Mix bits of truth with
things that either can not be disproven or lead to
rejection of all attempts to disprove, and...well, you
wind up with neoluddites and many of the rest of the
people we like to complain about.