I was once asked in an application to answer a simple, but deceiving question, "The Greatest Problem Known to Mankind". Now this is difficult. Honestly, ask yourself this. Where would YOU start? Global warming, women's rights, overpopulation; ultimately they are all linked together.
Let's take this a step backwards. What is man's greatest achievement? Okay, to clarify, I'm trying to ask the process that allowed humanity to progress so far. Education, undoubtedly. Without it, wouldn't we still be incompetent cavemen eating raw flesh? Education has led people to live longer, live more comfortably, and have more leisure in their lives. On the contrary, education is a death sentence.
Education is the root cause of all social problems. If I were to approach a Westerner and question them on whether or not socialism or capitalism were the better system, I would expect the latter. Why? Well, isn't that how we've been educated? From what I've learned, my teachers and parents have always denounced socialism. As if I've been guinea-pigged into thinking it doesn't work. In a way, this is what fueled Vietnam and the Cold War too, right?
People always go about what they've been taught and most fail to move past this. For example, the global recession struck in 2008. Most jobs were outsourced out of America, because these companies [IBM, cough cough] wanted "capital". Well, I'm sure capitalism is a winner now isn't it? That near double-digit unemployment rate is just the icing on the cake!
As education and development progress, so does the number of lives it takes. Just look at modern conflict. Back in 1800, we didn't have the capability to nuke someone, but now we do. That bias in education will undoubtedly cause more lives to be lost [just because socialism is definitely subordinate to capitalism] as time passes. That was a Cold War/Vietnam War/Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan reference to try to make it more obvious.
The solution obviously is not to stop educating, but to eliminate the bias. When we do, we'll be living in the ideal Utopia [let's try to make Thomas More proud].. No more wars and world peace. That's the hard part.
Let's take this a step backwards. What is man's greatest achievement? Okay, to clarify, I'm trying to ask the process that allowed humanity to progress so far. Education, undoubtedly. Without it, wouldn't we still be incompetent cavemen eating raw flesh? Education has led people to live longer, live more comfortably, and have more leisure in their lives. On the contrary, education is a death sentence.
Education is the root cause of all social problems. If I were to approach a Westerner and question them on whether or not socialism or capitalism were the better system, I would expect the latter. Why? Well, isn't that how we've been educated? From what I've learned, my teachers and parents have always denounced socialism. As if I've been guinea-pigged into thinking it doesn't work. In a way, this is what fueled Vietnam and the Cold War too, right?
People always go about what they've been taught and most fail to move past this. For example, the global recession struck in 2008. Most jobs were outsourced out of America, because these companies [IBM, cough cough] wanted "capital". Well, I'm sure capitalism is a winner now isn't it? That near double-digit unemployment rate is just the icing on the cake!
As education and development progress, so does the number of lives it takes. Just look at modern conflict. Back in 1800, we didn't have the capability to nuke someone, but now we do. That bias in education will undoubtedly cause more lives to be lost [just because socialism is definitely subordinate to capitalism] as time passes. That was a Cold War/Vietnam War/Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan reference to try to make it more obvious.
The solution obviously is not to stop educating, but to eliminate the bias. When we do, we'll be living in the ideal Utopia [let's try to make Thomas More proud].. No more wars and world peace. That's the hard part.
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