This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 17 Aug 2008, by Nathan Rein.
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23 Aug 08
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a lot of politicians think they have to play to ignorance and label anything that goes against received opinion as elitism.
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no country that has had more faith in education as an instrument of social mobility. No country in the West democratized education earlier, but no country has been more suspicious of too much education. We've always thought of education as good if it gets you a better job, but bad if it makes you think too much.
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Video culture is the worst possible means for understanding anything more complicated than a sound bite.
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A fundamentalist is one who believes in a literal interpretation of sacred books, and a third of Americans believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible. That's about 10 times more than any other developed country in the world. It's entirely possible to be a religious believer and to accept science, but not if you're a literal religious believer.
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We've always had more faith in technology than other countries. One of our problems with computers is that we believe in technological solutions to what are essentially non-technological problems. Not knowing is a non-technological problem.
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in America because we had separation of church and state. Many forms of religious belief survived in America, because you could believe anything you wanted and still not be opposed to your government.
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Americans are unwilling to look at how really bad our educational system is because we've all been propagandized with the idea that we're number one.
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Emotional intelligence depends largely on whether we are brought up to empathize with other people. But it doesn't matter if you're kind to others and you understand them if you don't know anything about your society and history.
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In terms of society, having emotional intelligence without knowledge is useless. And, of course, having knowledge without emotional intelligence is also useless. But they're not the same thing.
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17 Aug 08
Nathan ReinBasically follows the precedent set by Hofstadter.
popular_culture interview intelligence politics political_culture bad_news
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16 Aug 08
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