How not to be ignorant about the World.

Last evening the porch summit evolved into a living room conference.  Jeff went to bed, The Commander went to the television.  Cory and Kadizzle were left alone to solve the world's problems.  In the course of the great discussion Cory asked " How do you control population?".  We had concluded there were way too many people on the planet.

Jogging his memory Kadizzle came up with the solution.  Actually he remembered where the solution was.  The solution to population control is simple. Get people out of poverty.  So off we went to the Gapminder site.  As god would divine the perfect video was there. "How not to be ignorant about the world" is the video.  Now if you don't want to be ignorant about the world this video is an absolute, must watch.  The simple theme is we can cure the world of poverty in about fifteen years.

While most people were watching Game of Thrones, or some simple sports event, Cory and Kadizzle were watching one the most important videos of our times.  One thing the video points out is that in most cases monkeys guessing at random are smarter than humans about world knowledge.  The humans are college educated humans. The monkeys are in the zoo.

The bottom line is we are ignorant by choice. The average person is totally unwilling to think and learn.  Why think, research, and learn, when your Fox News can fill you totally full of what you think is knowledge? Most people love the simple solution of going to the bar or coffee shop and getting their mind filled with the local popular shit. If you live in North Dakota you get your brain filled with right wing shit. If you live in Seattle it is left wing shit.  However, yup, yes there are real facts out there.  You can find real facts, but you have to look for them and know what a real fact looks like.  Real facts do not come from Rush Limbaugh, KFYR the local lying rat radio show, or Fox News.  That is just a clue.  Have some fun, see what it is like to wake up your brain that is drugged by ignorance willfully inflicted on yourself.  Read something real, have a real conversation, read an article, go for it.