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[stoffhimel]

No lie, I once had to explain who Stalin was to one of my collage classmates.

[Prof_Sai]

Originally Posted by stoffhimel

No lie, I once had to explain who Stalin was to one of my collage classmates.

I knew a guy in college who didn't know what "Smart" meant. He seemed to confuse smart/dumb with good/evil, as in Hitler invaded poland, boy was that dumb! Another guy (from Brasil) thought that reindeer were make believe! My other friends explained to him that they don't actually fly and pull a sleigh, but otherwise they are a real animal.

I wonder if knowledge is like paint. It can be spread around, but you can always miss a spot, and have that one person who managed to miss the one bit of data that everyone else knows. Given all the information that it is assumed that "everyone knows" one can imagine that everyone might have little gaps like this. How would you know?

[bure5150]

It's sad really. We live. In an age where knowledge is literally at our fingers tips. It has never been easier to educate yourself and yet ignorance is still running rampant in the world. It almost a blissful state of stupidity. I will truly weep for the world if Trump wins. I fear what the future will hold after that day.

[Prof_Sai]

Originally Posted by bure5150

It's sad really. We live. In an age where knowledge is literally at our fingers tips. It has never been easier to educate yourself and yet ignorance is still running rampant in the world. It almost a blissful state of stupidity. I will truly weep for the world if Trump wins. I fear what the future will hold after that day.

It speaks to the limits of stored information. You can't look up the answer if you don't know the question. Or if you don't WANT to know, and are just looking to rationalize an existing decision: eg. Alan Keys' "Gay marriage causes incest."

[qzar9999]

Originally Posted by Prof_Sai

I wonder if knowledge is like paint. It can be spread around, but you can always miss a spot, and have that one person who managed to miss the one bit of data that everyone else knows. Given all the information that it is assumed that "everyone knows" one can imagine that everyone might have little gaps like this. How would you know?

So...everyone knows that everyone knows at least one wrong thing? Only they don't know, because not everyone knows, and how could you know?