• GorGor@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        1 month ago

        They were NEVER smarter. At most at one time they had more leisure time and access to books and tutors when reading and books were rare. That made them more educated, and they want to go back to that desperately.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
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          1 month ago

          I dont think much of our ruling class wants to go back to reading, looking at the way they… are.

          • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation