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Skybird · 09-10-13, 08:18 PM

Maybe we should also stop teaching math and the four basic calculations, for as long as their and batteries, there will be pocket calculators.

As I use to say: we live in the time of skyrocketing infantilization.

Genetic biologists assume that human intelligence already has spiked a maximum around 3000 years ago. Back then, there was a need to be smart and clever, and the absence of technical aids and helps and so forth mad eit vital that you could cope with situations and assess them correctly nevertheless. At that time and the following centuries, we also saw a blossoming, an amassed blossoming of thinking, and some of mankind most remembered thinkers and philosophers did live.

Different to what politically correct people usually claim, at least framing factors of intelligence are very well inheritable, scientifically this is consensus and is not questioned anymore since almost half a century now. Mathematical models of genetics resulted in a calculation showing that since 3000 years ago the average IQ of mankind is shrinking again.

Needless to say, this theory is passionately debated. If you want to see biologists going for each others throats in no time, mention it, and have your popcorn ready.

Not only is it political dynamite, for where you claim inheritable genetic markers for intelligence you necessarily imply that some people (or races!) by birth are more (or less) smarter than others, and how can you dare to claim that!

, but you also deliver a tremendous blow to mankind's ever inflating ego.

I think the basics and principles of math as well as reading and writing should remain mandatory in school. Like I also think that while there is nothign wrong in having a navigation software on a tablet, you should also be able to read a paper map and navigate and find your position by compass. For interest I even learned the using of a sextant, long time ago, though I never needed it.

And the basics of all this are part of elementary astronomy lessons anyway (which was my hobby).

We should not make us slaves of technical tools whose functional principles we can no longer understand, because we found it wise to not learn them anymore. This can only lead the way to your demise: intellectually, and by the loss of knowledge from that: practically as well.

Maybe one day we end with something like Frank Herbert envisioned it in "Dune": a Butler's djihad.

Death to the machines!

09-10-13, 08:18 PM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,719 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Maybe we should also stop teaching math and the four basic calculations, for as long as their and batteries, there will be pocket calculators. As I use to say: we live in the time of skyrocketing infantilization. Genetic biologists assume that human intelligence already has spiked a maximum around 3000 years ago. Back then, there was a need to be smart and clever, and the absence of technical aids and helps and so forth mad eit vital that you could cope with situations and assess them correctly nevertheless. At that time and the following centuries, we also saw a blossoming, an amassed blossoming of thinking, and some of mankind most remembered thinkers and philosophers did live. Different to what politically correct people usually claim, at least framing factors of intelligence are very well inheritable, scientifically this is consensus and is not questioned anymore since almost half a century now. Mathematical models of genetics resulted in a calculation showing that since 3000 years ago the average IQ of mankind is shrinking again. Needless to say, this theory is passionately debated. If you want to see biologists going for each others throats in no time, mention it, and have your popcorn ready. Not only is it political dynamite, for where you claim inheritable genetic markers for intelligence you necessarily imply that some people (or races!) by birth are more (or less) smarter than others, and how can you dare to claim that! , but you also deliver a tremendous blow to mankind's ever inflating ego. I think the basics and principles of math as well as reading and writing should remain mandatory in school. Like I also think that while there is nothign wrong in having a navigation software on a tablet, you should also be able to read a paper map and navigate and find your position by compass. For interest I even learned the using of a sextant, long time ago, though I never needed it. And the basics of all this are part of elementary astronomy lessons anyway (which was my hobby). We should not make us slaves of technical tools whose functional principles we can no longer understand, because we found it wise to not learn them anymore. This can only lead the way to your demise: intellectually, and by the loss of knowledge from that: practically as well. Maybe one day we end with something like Frank Herbert envisioned it in "Dune": a Butler's djihad. Death to the machines! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.