Sometimes ignorance really is bliss

@Montgomereeeee That's not true LOL. My nephew loves dinosaurs, and he wanted to go to the zoo to see one. I had to explain they were extinct but we could see their bones. He was soooooo angry.

Yes Mother Earth really wants her grande

Trust me, he totally misses dinosaurs. He is also 5, so...

@Beyr me too when I was small

When I was still a little tadpole @Beyr

Due to my circumstances I've grow up around a lot of 'educated' women who are single and absolutely miserable

@ThreeOfOne Well, that's unfortunate. I think college tempts women with the promise of more resources, but it's hard work in or out of college. I have a college degree and I am very happy, but I just love learning.

Those inquisitive pre-school years really are the most fun for adults, ha.

they were sold the idea they could live to the same standards of men and well, it sucks lol

@ThreeOfOne Exactly. You can't go in thinking college is some golden ticket. You still have to work hard. My grandfather would tell me 'hard work wins every day of the week' and he was onto something.

@Montgomereeeee depends on your view of value. Anything of value can be torn apart under the death of a thousand cuts model as long as you don't value each indiviual bit lost. What we have isn't of much value to the universe, but it is all we have so at least I will value what little we can get.

I feel like people don't really understand commitment anymore. Cell phone providers moved away from contracts, everything is instant gratification. The idea of sticking with something even if it doesn't make you happy in the moment seems to be foreign to a lot of people.

@mikeflarkin You are right, it is the result of an instant society. Instead of teaching endurance we teach replacement.

This is why games are important

I think value is what society says it is based on it’s need for it to survive. The value of humanity for the world and existence is 0

@Nine I'm curious where you're going with this

@Beyr That's true, but I also think it's like Prof. Saad said in his interview with Joe Rogan, when a woman educates herself she shrinks the available pool of men she's willing to mate with substantially, because most men don't want to be in a relationship with a woman who is more intelligent than them and most women want men who are.

@ThreeOfOne agree

This is even worse if you're a minority woman, say black. Because with the average black IQ being 85 if you do manage to put yourself through college you're probably 1 to 2 standard deviations higher than the average black male in terms of IQ.

Agreed*

Games give an environment where losing isn't consequential, but also build up the importance of needing to put in the time to get the reward

@ThreeOfOne I thought that it was wealth, not intelligence

@ThreeOfOne agreed, but I also think that a lot of people think that because they went to college, they know everything about how the world works. I have a degree, certifications, and licenses in various fields, for example, but I don't know shit about, say, farming.

@Misomania Wealth too, women want to trade up, there's a saying 'hypergamy floats'

@mikeflarkin depends on the topic

Never mind how colleges themselves are weakened by catering to 90-IQ black students.

@Nine people play CoD where you can instantly respawn

@mikeflarkin Or learning

@ThreeOfOne I think that is partially true. My dating pool shrank where I had men straight up tell me that they were intimidated because they had jobs in manual labor and I had a degree? There's stigma either way. I think women expect... this is going to sound really mean, but they expect to have a pick of the litter with men, no matter what. Perhaps there is some evolutionary truth to this, but overall women end up overly picky? I knew a woman in college who broke up with a guy who 'wore shirts she didn't like'. Not offensive shirts, just t-shirts instead of whatever. Nuts, right?

I think college is just a selection process for a managerial class of individuals who know how to check boxes

@ThreeOfOne I don't know about learning, or...?

I can tell from being at university that they’re really trying to sell the left’s view on the world

@Montgomereeeee agreed, it does seem like certain fields (ie gender studies) tends to create more people that believe that they know far more than they really do

@ThreeOfOne I know a lot of very stupid people who have degrees, so perhaps there's some truth to that too.

@mikeflarkin but to "get gud" you need to work at dying less than you kill

@Nine that's why I play Counter-Strike lol

I think the shift from educating to indoctrinating is a natural consequence of accepting a dumber student population.

But in a game like CoD, even if you never get gud, you still can just keep going

@mikeflarkin What I mean is that the entire process of contemporary education strips people of their creativity and capacity for independent thought

@ThreeOfOne oh I absolutely agree. It used to be that college was a place where you learned how little you actually knew, and you got exposed to new ideas that you were also encouraged to question