It Really Doesn't Bother Me.

[ZenitYerkes]

Alright HNM. I have lost completely the point of the debate.

First of all, and again: needed knowledge is not the same as wanted knowledge. I say the first kind is over the second. Period.

No, you won't be worrying about wanting to know where the Alpha Centauri system is or how to build a robot if you are starving to death. Can a robot help to supply a need? Then go on! But if all it's going to do is to clap or dance the Macarena, then take for sure I'll dump it if I were dying for a dish of rice.

If knowledge, investigation and technology is directed to needs, in my opinion there is no problem. If they're focused on wants or desires, I say: first things first, take care of your issues and then have fun.

The problem is that we don't see further away from our own side, and the rest of the world suffering from diseases, pollution or hunger is nonexistent and irrelevant to our interests, so we can have all the fun we want without caring on how to solve their trouble.

Now, on the topic of human stupidity: yes, we are becoming stupid. More and more everyday. That's why we need to make the knowledge accessible to people and show them it's practical even if they don't use it on their works; thus they will find it attractive.

Simplification is a way to make it readable for the common citizen. It's not that it'll be the only source of knowledge: it will be just the door from where to step inside the room of knowledge.

I am not saying, I repeat, that we should get rid of all the progress we've made so far: just don't make the "subspecies of strong-but-stupid and clever-but-weak" thing happen. And that begins by strengthening the nerds and encourage learning between the bullies.

To say it in some -weird- way.