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Are you sure that is isn't the case though? But I will highlight again that lazy is not necessarily the point. Spending time on something else is not a sign of laziness, but of prioritization. Edit: I should add, that there are not a lot of incentives to do so, even before the rise of social media. Schools and Universities were the institutions where such skills were trained, with incentives to do so. Their influence has eroded as well and the modern media landscape and social media has a distinct anti-intellectual slant. Not necessarily out of maliciousness (though it adds to it) but in part simply because we reduced attention spans to less than a minute now.

You're conflating lazy with ineptitude, your assumption is that everyone is capable of higher thinking if only they work hard enough; that's like saying we could all drive a formula 1 car, if we learn how to change gear. Classic pious behaviour, look it up, maybe that would change your mind; but it's more insidious than that, you can't even see the connection...

So... if I tell you the density of the alloy is 10.5, you can tell me it has a composition which lies on that Isopycnic line. But you can't tell me which composition it is. In other words, you can't tell me anything that Archimedes couldn't have

If the government imposes an unfair Tea Tax ? 😀

Depends, I think the difference that I see is that the drug is a clear external agent that, while strongly connected to society, could at least in theory be cut off. But here I think it is our very thinking that is affected, which makes things more invisible and insidious more akin to 1984 where folks are not able to follow a concept as the language moved away from it.

Perfect pick on so many levels. I am just glad that Hannibal Lecter wasn't a real person.

All clocks have errors. Mechanical clocks aren’t that great. You might think not gaining or losing a second per day is good, but that’s a fractional frequency stability of about 10^-5. A decent quartz watch is slightly better. If you temperature-stabilize it you’ll do better. Atomic clocks range from around 10^-11 to 10^-16. Cutting-edge frequency standards these days are around 10^-18 Gravitational time dilation near the earth is about 10^-16 per meter of height change. You need atomic clocks to notice.

Call it whatever you like but unlike your meme I never claimed it had anything to do with being smarter or less smart than anyone. Do you think that someday you can debate without twisting my words or claiming I wrote or inferred things never written explicitly? Here I had thought the discussion was about voters being lazy/inept about finding out about the issues the are voting on and had nothing to do with work habits or social grace...