Appeal to popularity.
I have not seen evidence that the non-jewish, christian, regular joes in germany were, by any standard of today, even low ones, could be considered educated. And if you wish to convince me, you have a lot of work ahead of you, which doesn’t include posting opinions, even 1000s of them, of people who are merely interested in history. Show me something from someone with accreditation from a respected university at least. And then show me that the standard of education then was on par with the standard of today.
The question was about how to ensure freedom from potential tyrannical rule and my proposal was to educate the population. Your counterpoint was that the german citizens were smart, yet fooled. I have not seen sufficient evidence to validate your counterpoint. Not least of all, people could not have studied the history of the Nazi regime before it happened, but today such knowledge is common. We have 100 years of empirical evidence to draw upon today in addition to the information they had. That wasn’t the case in the past, among technological challenges for the conveyance of information that existed in that time which draws into question just how educated regular people could have possibly been. And if the education level of today’s christians are any guide, then not much could be said of the education of the same sorts a century ago.
If you’re not familiar with the alliance of christianity and Hitler, you can brush-up here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=194717
Why not? Your research is based on opinions of anyone who claims to be a history buff.
I can’t tell if that’s a statement about you or a statement about me.
Well, would you categorize a mistake as a smart decision? You’re saying smart people generally have a proclivity for making mistakes that stupid people generally do not make, and if such is the case, then the smart people you’re referencing obviously are not smart, but have some sort of neurological handicap.
Forget smart and stupid and just tell me what is lost upon going to college and learning? Why do people get dumber after they get smarter? This is what you’re alluding to right? That education makes people so stupid that they fall for bullshit? Alright, propose a mechanism to explain the correlation you think you’ve noticed.
Maybe you want to opine in this thread viewtopic.php?f=3&t=194611
What is the virtue of ignorance that everyone is on about?