I've never heard that before in Elementary School, and anything I didn't already know before by the Time Highschool Ended I will Immediately Reject and Get Belligerently Hostile! It Makes me Angry! So Angry You'll Learn to Not Learn Anything Knew as well, and Specially Damn Well Not Say It Loud! It's all just Leftist Hogwash, or a Rightwing Conspiracy to Me, everything I Don't Know Can be Drummed Up and Into it must be the Exact Opposite of my Politics! And Viciously Refuted!
I’m a Canadian 🇨🇦 born in 1975, and during my life I’ve seen an almost unbelievable decline of general decency and morality in people. I try my hardest to be as polite, courteous and respectful to others as I can, even though a lot of people these days aren’t……
100% I’ve experienced similar in Australia since 1973. It baffles me how so many people seem to have seriously impaired empathy, extreme entitlement and no basic courtesy. It all seems to be tied to stupidity, cruelty and a brutish attitude to life and others. My childhood wasn’t like that at all. Blokes used to fix stuff properly on a handshake. Can’t even imagine that now.
@@cloudmountaindog8537 exactly mate, people have been enticed into so much narcissism and material things that the dumbing down of has made them feel like knowing what Kim Kardashian bought for herself on her last holiday or who picked the most teams in the footy tips is a great accomplishment, they'll sit and talk for hours about it and pat each other on the backs, and yet people I know have the cheek to say to me that I'm antisocial because I just want to go and get the things I need and get my ass home, and yet somehow it's my fault that I don't follow suit and sit with them talking absolute rot for hours, and these are people that are in their 40's and 50's that think they're smarter than other people for picking more teams in the NRL that week, it's sad mate 👍
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
What’s his name the Canadian? I think Jordan Peterson. Canadian Medical board wants him not only to shut up but undergo reeducation. Open ended too. They are not clear what their goal is, length of time, or how they know that he’s “Healed”. The very insanity that want to decide, define, and punish “Hate Speech”. Who gives or receives that power. The resistance is growing to these tyrants but not fast enough
I had a teacher like that. And I'm grateful for him doing this. He told me last year after hearing my music " I have no more to teach you" thought I would *never* hear him say that to me. But he did.
@@ponderinglife5582 well, compared to "your thumbs up". since I studied engineering, I can assuredly exclaim that according to your metrics, I seem to have conquered you in short order, next troll plz
This reminds me of a quote:"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." -Charles Bukowski
@divinehatred6021 Indeed, many people can have the same idea simultaneously just as Isaac Newton and Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz both formulated calculus.
I’m in my 60’s and still want to eat the world. Soooooo many things to know and learn. I’ve never been bored a day in my life and I never feel alone. Thank you so much for sharing these important insights. 😊
It is called "dumbing down" the people. They don't want smart intelligent people who think for themselves, they want people to do what they say without question.
I like that quote. I also like his other one in the same vein: "Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get filthy, and the pig likes it." I have a feeling that Twain had a lot of experience talking with stupid people.
If it wasn't George Bernard Shaw? Mark Twain? Abraham Lincoln? Cyrus Stuart Ching? J. Frank Condon? Richard P. Calhoon? N. H. Eagle? Cale Yarborough? anonymous, or someone else
I'm 36 and in my peer group, I'm the only one who actually reads. No one that I know seems to have the patience to sit down, and learn anymore. I love learning, I grew up with dyslexia, and had a very hard time reading. Maybe I just appreciate it more than the next guy🤷 keep up the great videos👍 you rock man!
You are rare in these times we need more free thinkers like you everyone is so programmed by the matrix. Watch the movie blade runner it’s basically the NWO playbook that and the UN agenda.
@@thor8580 thanks Thor I'll have to give it a watch. And thank you for the compliment of saying the world needs more people like me! I've never been told that before 😀
I am 75. I see Internet references that are in conflict with my eyeballs have seen. I would trust bound paper books for reference before diving into the internet about many subjects. It would take a lot of effort to reproduce a bound copy of a book printed in 1953. Or any other year before the net was a public thing to view. Oh yes I have heard of the Mandela effect. BUT I am talking about being there, in person. There are experts at slight of hand and slighting reality for their own purposes. They have been around for millennia. It used to be that you find more than one source. Compare and deduce something approaching reality. But when all sources are exactly the same. It generally indicates tampering.
I’ve been saying this for years! Especially these days… people commit crimes and then get praised and called brave by the media then end up getting brand deals and go around giving lectures! It’s ridiculous!
It's an intentional attack on our societies. Just research the people who push harmful social policies that reward bad behavior and ignorance and you'll see that I'm telling the truth. They WANT our Western countries to be filled with stupid, addicted and sick evil people for a reason.
My father never finished high school, but he was one of the smartest people I have ever known. He did read a lot, and never lost his child-like curiosity about everything. When he got older, he’d see something on the news about some country he knew nothing about, pull out the second-hand atlas I gave him and he’d be able to tell you their main exports, whether it’s farms are able to feed their people etc. He was never boastful about knowing more than others, he just would do it for himself to understand the world we live in better. I think I learned more from him than I ever did from any of my teachers. He’s gone now, but I inherited his curiosity. It pains me to see people spouting off about things they know so little about, but don’t realize that they are rather ignorant about it. I used to correct people, but I gave up. You can debate an intelligent person who may have a different opinion, but to the illinformed and misinformed, all you get is noise, contradiction and denial. Now that I’m an old guy myself, I must say that every day I’m surrounded by more and more chronically stupid people.
My grandfather only went to grade 5 because of WW2 but he spent almost his whole life learning right up until the last 10 years when he got terminally ill.
I totally agree! Ugh @ social media. I'm old enough (40-some) to know a glorious time prior to this hyper-connectivity, and internet. We did things. Outdoors! We grew up stronger physically, morally, and such were able to know how much better life can be w/o constant tethering to 'feeds', social media, & constant force-fed 'information' (aka, BS). I strongly encourage younger peeps to 'cut the cord'. A whole hidden world opens up - some of us call this thing, "living"..
this is a weaponized attack from billionaires to destroy a nation from within. China bans our content , and pushes their Algorithim for more intellectualism content to thier people .
Exactly this. Social Media has a lot to answer for. Too many people use it as an escape from reality. t's the latest fashionable drug that nobody's yet realised is doing so much harm to individuals and the wider society. The ability to think, debate, actual face to face conversation are in decline, civilisation as we know it is grinding to a halt. Reading, thinking, learning and creating are being obliterated by mindless scrolling :/ Oh heck, I'm actually a happy, optimistic person but you wouldn't know it from this reply lol
I dislike going out in public as the majority of people I have misfortune to meet are stupid. A total lack of even basic common sense. It's depressing.
Tell me about it. I just rode to the local grocery store with my hubby. He went in to get a few items while I waited in the truck and some little bimbo that works there and is always flirting with him literally chased him out to the truck with me sitting there. Then she had the nerve to look over at me after trying to get him to tell her his last name, and say "Hey there Sweetheart"....UGH. Absolutely shameless, dispicable behavoir.
@@reesedaniel5835 it's likely that she senses something about your husband that indicates he is interested, it's highly unlikely any woman would do what she did if the man seemed uninterested or at least neutral.
There's a big difference between trusting a mechanic or a surgeon and/or having respect for say the applied sciences next to the varying narratives we're fed by astrophysicists.
Unfortunately in America we have become a society of childish, adults that pretend to be grownups. You are so correct to we should keep our child like curiosity . While becoming adults. ❤️🙏❤️🙏
I'm Filipina and never knew anything about my country until I moved to Chile, and here I became completely enthralled with researching what Hispanic Filipinas was like. I've never stopped and after writing essays and studying 19th C. Spanish sources, now I am writing a fiction work. It fills my world in the most incredible way. Also I follow the invisible developments going on, if you know what I mean, that is fascinating as well, but it gets too heavy at times so I have the other thing. I also live in a cottage in the Andean foothills. Don't spend much time on sidewalks. You have to find your own thing. It's out there waiting for you to get it.
This is a real problem in the US. We need a complete overhaul of the education system & real funding for the educators themselves. How can we expect them produce the future without giving them a living wage?
Hello Bjorn I'm an ex city girl from Edinburgh Scotland I moved to the Netherlands in the countryside and its done me wonders physically and mentally but the rate idiocy is on the rise in th UK is truly terrifying especially Scotland 😢
i think in the next few years its going to turn around . parents are catching on to what the Federall Govt and unelected billionaire world leaders are pushing on thier kids
Not only that, but it's an echo chambers for like minded freaks who normally wouldn't in the real world find each other, but collaborate their idiocy once they can communicate in an online group. But what kills me is a group of kids standing in a circle waiting for the bus, and they are all on their cellphones talking to anyone else but who they are with physically.
When I was at school, I used to wish that I was like some of the other kids who would absorb everything that they were told, without questioning. Fifty + years later and my view has changed, having seen what they, and their kind, became.
They become a product to the system Drilled like the foot soldiers ( Cannon fodder) for the elite, being told how to think and when to wipe your own arse is what education is, with out questioning.
I know what you mean, my school friends that went on to higher education also went onto become the most closed minded people I know, completely incapable of considering the contrary to anything the government media puts out, they believe it without question.
I am a detail Gardener, some people scauf at my humble claims of having a education in horticulture and that there even exists a gardener that does more than cutt grass. There are even those who think they have a inherit skilled hand in gardening because of some elder in thier family who was a great gardener, that may hold something, but years of hands on experience, and Lots of reading,.. you know ? Great show today Wise Woodsman 🕊️🌲
I've loved reading since childhood, I'm still reading, and learning, at 67, left school at 15 as I needed to work, didn't stop me continuing to learn, I've no idea how many books on multiple topics I've consumed over the years, but I've no intention of stopping anytime soon 😊
And the people lost it's identity. Men with beards claiming to be women using public women restrooms ECT. Lost there minds. If you call it out. Your looked upon as criminal. What.! Guess I'm a criminal I'm calling it out questioning idiots
And the fault for what you are talking about lies at the feet of the educated elites. There is no problem with your basic morons, they don't think they are smarter than everyone else. Now the educated idiots are a big problem due to them thinking that they know what is best for everyone else. When reality shows everything they touch turns to $h!+.
@@joeskeptical4762 did you see who he appointed to the chief executive position? A bug pharma con man, coof czar and overall criminogenic inclined person. The American Post went through his background. Oh yes he's also the man who said the unjabbed would have a dark winter of death. His Healthcare agencies he invested in were forced to settle medicare abd medicaid fraud lawsuits. Our white house is a den of thieves.
I am a little old lady and spend of my time by myself except for my horses. I really enjoy reading. Any topic including the atlas. I had no trouble getting through covid times. I live in a rural wooded area and believe we learn until our end. Thank you for the videos.
I also live in the woods by myself, and my "neighbors" are just like you. Honest and unbroken. I am in the right place. Cheers to our calm and peaceful lives. 😊
ABSOLUTLY !!! One important key; as Ellen G. White or Orwell warn to us: Get out the cities. Because is in the cities where are plagues will be apply. CDBS, 15 min cities,... its only the beginning Far from the cities there will be much less control because the lacks of police and rules, and you will have more freedom, more life healthy abd quality in the next SADLY years.
COMPLETELY AGREE. Some days I wonder if I’m the only one who sees these things. People have no shame these days. They will say or do anything stupid. And they are praised for it! What the hell?
There is a growing narcissism. People behave like narcissists more as that is modelled for them. They are addicted to soaps and reality TV. I was into reality TV for a few years as it was a novelty back then and then got bored with it. They started recruiting obnoxious people deliberately and types of people they thought wouldn't get on together. That's when I stopped. I didn't watch soaps either apart from one. I was then out of sync with people who did. I had a friend who was anti TV and wouldn't keep one at home. But she was fanatical about this. She said her cousins didn't have TV growing up, which is why they got talented at piano and ballet. I told getting rid of the TV wouldn't make a piano and piano teacher magically appear. So, I wrote a story based on her cycling around Wales on a mission to rid society of TV. I called it Judy on the Road.
I have been a physicist for over 50 years, and what you say is 100% true. The contempt for expertise in the US is real. One point I would make is that the study that make one an experts involves studying books, but much of it is like playing the piano; you have to actually do the work a long time with people who are really expert to develop the high level of skill required to be an expert. You can learn a lot by reading, but you also need years of real experience to be expert.
A real scientist would never say "100% true." You betray your subject and your career with your hyperbole. Another person making sweeping, rash, ill-considered anti-intellectual, reactionary comments. You are called out Sir.....(only a man would make such a comment).
the real experience is denied for far to many children and young people. . . life is supposed to be fun . . . serious about family and hard work so we can actually enjoy the air we breath. . . . the children are stuck at home with there parents stupidity and violence. . . . . parents who intentionaly train there kids for this. . . . they dont know what its like to actually live with the decisions they make. . . .and the kids are board and fed up with the BS that isn't there problem anyway. . . .they cant even vote but we expect the children to know about government and policies then we do. . . . and the lies. . . . . we never had a chance to know the truth without without being possessions and empty vessels for an old generation to put there crap.
Well, a glance over the shoulder and back 4-5 years, displays many legitimate reasons to take any expert with at least a grain of salt. As the research of Mattias Desmet revealed, it is "experts" that is overrepresentated amongst those groups that is most prone to mass formation.
You should have millions of followers, I am 68 went to a village school but always read books and still do. I am horrified by the dumbing down we see today, in school I was taught to challenge every thing and learn about as much as possible so that I could converse with a wide variety of people.
Now 62, I was the same. Must be an 'age' thing! Farmer's daughter, church on Sunday, small village school education and just a regular pupil but one who always asked 'WHY' ! My mother took all her 7 children into the city every Thursday after school. We spent at least an hour there choosing our books. We all loved Thursday's. Raised my six children much the same way. All sons and all doing very well for themselves/families owning their own businesses. (An aside- not one of us took them poison shot. )
I go to the car dealer and they have a tv for the adults and a tv room for kids. I could not stand the "news" so I went in the kids room...no one was in there and the tv was off. An employee came in and turned it on. I was appalled...it was mind numbing so I left.
@@chelamcguire I agree wholeheartedly. I'm Grammar school educated,and the two senior English teachers always encouraged me to ask questions (for whiich I have laws been grateful). And I have always held that the most important question is WHY?
All I can say is you sir is that you are 100 percent right. The celebration of the bizarre and stupid is becoming an epidemic. It just shows how the materialistic nonsense for the celebration of narcissism has taken over....
I had a parking enforcement officer start to write me a ticket as soon as I parked my car and got out to pay. He was standing right there, he saw me. When I tried to explain this to him he said “I am not payed to think about these things and proceed to get very angry. He was a very large man so I said in a very loud voice “are you preparing to assault me?” A number of bystanders began to stare at him so he closed up his little book and walked away
@@yyz4761 doesn't sound like he was being stupid. but more likely pushing to fill out his quoter of the day, and you seemed like a target that wouldn't fight back because of his size.
@@deadreckoning6288 Yes. The government operates on the principle of the meaning of the word "kafkaesque"....Kafkaesque is used to describe situations that are disorientingly and illogically complex and or tedious in an unneccesarily surreal or nightmarish way. If you said your long, frustrating, and bizarre experience at the Department of Motor Vehicles was kafkaesque, you wouldn't be the first person to describe it that way.
I developed these rules for myself a fair few years before the pandemic showed up, but they've been serving me well so far: 1. Listen to everybody (no matter who they are) 2. Believe nobody (no matter who they are) 3. Locate as much original source data as possible 4. Make up your own mind from all of the above.
Me and my fiance literally don't like going out anymore at all because we have literally watched the decline in society and it is scary to know that here soon society will be so dumbed down that people will believe 2+2=pineapple just so they won't be confronted by these people that are steadily destroying everything
We ride horses a lot and one of the things we learn is to ride our own ride ! We can see and feel what's going on around us but we are just passing threw riding our own ride .
All planned over decades and now playing out before our Eyes, the globalists cabal have infiltrated and compromised the western world with media, education etc resistance 👍😊😉
@@evolveyourself9518 I believe over the next few years the western world is going to get a reality check that will either wake society up or destroy them. The plandemic did open up quite a few eyes to how things are in their world but there are still far too many that choose to be ignorant.
Im a 90's kid and I remember when I was around 12 my father took me to a shoe store and at the checkout the ladies says, "can i have your phone number for our system?". The offended look on my fathers face said it all. We have badly fallen as a society to have given our privacy and freedom so cheaply while half asleep. If calamity doesnt kill you stupidity surely will.
i do all my shopping online, no way to do it without giving away personal info but to me it's still much more private than going into a store and being in public around total strangers who could actually physically touch me if they chose.
Not all privacy violations are created equal. The bigger risk these days are data leak hacks on large companies. I trust a vendor to treat my info decently (usually you can tell them not to spam you with ads and they listen), but accumulating lots for it to be leaked and distributed into the scam-sphere is where the real pain is. We live in the golden age of scams, after all!!! Also biometrics - that's a no-go for me most of the time.
@@DeflatingAtheism Thomas Sowell is an intellectual working for an ideological think tank. Think about the irony of that. My eyes were opened to how ignorant he really is when I read his critique of climate science. It was just a rehash of easily countered tropes.
Finally!! Someone saying this out loud! I am constantly telling people that I will not take nonsense and make it a conversation. I have to add that we are now learning much about nutrition that has been hidden from us. We have been deceived there as well. It isn’t a wonder people are distrustful. We have been lied to in every aspect of our lives and now it is up to us to find the truths.
@@ironmanrob66 We don't notice the speed, because Earth is so big and gravity holds everything down. The Earth's roundness was proven by Bronze Age Greek philosophers, by its round shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. The Flat Earth theory is biblical, based on ancient Babylonian myths, because the ancient Hebrews are descended from the Babylonians. It is currently a conspiracy theory.
You’re my favorite Woodsmen. I work 10-12 hours a day indoors in the city surrounded by narcissistic people. I love when you’re outdoors, it’s beautiful and I envy for being out in nature so much. You’re so blessed to be able to do so.
I agree we should continually educate ourselves. At the same time we should always find a balance between “trusting the experts” and trusting our experiences. I believe this was once referred to as critical thinking and was summarized in “question everything you hear and know.”
Yeah I agree. Trust but verify. Asking questions, even of experts, is not attacking intellectualism because everyone can have facts at least shaded by personal prejudice.
I'm SO GLAD you made this video!! I've been in the service industry for years and I see stupidity every day. It's gotten worse over the past several years and it's getting worse.
We've been downgraded to a lower level thru manipulation, food additives, GMO's, media, medicines and the educational system etc... I learned at an early age to think for myself and to solve problems, tasks and curiosity of how things work. Always trying to think outside the box! I've never believed in what was being told or to follow the crowd to the "rabbit hole." We've lost our will as "free thinkers" to some extent! I might not be the "brightest Apple in the barrel," but I can still be a free thinker.... Thank you Bjorn for your free thinking knowledge!
Curiosity and a love of learning has kept me young. Got my first college degree when I was in my 40's and my Master's degree at 60. Constantly digging into old history books! It's fun! That and a healthy dose of laughter keep me thirsty for more! Nice video!
In the very middle of your video you highlighted the most important thing in my opinion: intelectialism in not an certain education level - it's an attitude. It's an attitude of staying curious, open-minded, ready to change your opinions and point of view when confronted with facts, which BTW you are able to sort out from the noise and nonsense.
Great point! Charles Darwin once said, ‘if someone proved all of my life’s work wrong, I would embrace them’. Constant questioning and falsification is the bedrock of scientific philosophy.
I remember anti intellectualism in the 80's, where being bored, reactive, and not being curious about anything was the peak of cool. Being a 'nerd' was social suicide. I knew kids who purposely got bad grades in school so that popular (failing) kids would be nicer to them. Carl Sagan talked about this in the 70's. It's not a new concept at all. I guess people are talking about it today because it's much harder to ignore.
Thank you for this. I used to read Asimov’s non fiction when I was young and related to his words. Another thing, I visited a big older ranch in Montana where none of the family went to University. The grandpa invited me to one of their rooms…it was a library with all walls filled with books on shelves, and a big rocking chair
@@JaheimPalmer- I never said I was a fan, in fact I have long thought of him as an actor used to manipulate sheep. Since normies like/respect him I drop that quote in their laps. I often drop quotes from people I do not care for, from Einstein, Barack Husain Obama, Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton, ect
@@michaels7159 I am the kid that the school had the threaten with detention if I did not join their math team. Math coach warned me before the competition that the other teams were going to accuse me of cheating. You mad?
In my philosophy, there is a difference between intellect and intelligence. Intelligence is like the magnificent, subtle and little-understood workings of your body, that quietly and exquisitely gets on with it. Intellect for me is a smallish subset of this intelligence and it has its place - even though it frequently bigs itself up yet gets it wrong! I try to cultivate my instinctual intelligence, which is like a still small voice, that cuts through to aspects that intellect cannot even imagine. I think we all have access to this instinctual intelligence but it is easily overlooked.
I would like it known that even though sometimes people do disagree,, I have always held Bjorn in high regard for what he does and continues to do for Others!!! Our world would be a lot better place if there were many more like him!
This Carl Sagan quote is on my mind a lot lately... "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
I have often seen this sentiment, in the form of this quote: "it is easier to fool a man, than to convince him he has been fooled." It is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but there seems to be no evidence of the actual author. Regardless, it seems an accurate observation.
I lived with hippies up a mountain in the Canaries for 1 year. Living in nature and growing our own food/medicine. 💚 I learnt more in 1 year than the previous 20.
@@barniball this was in Tenerife high up past a place called Arafo. There are numerous places just in Tenerife. We stayed at an old tobacco farm/finca. The land was huge and covered many terraces in wooded areas where people built amazing recycled houses from old pallets/ salvaged wood. We had solar electric, also fresh water source from the mountain. It really was heaven. Unfortunately the guy who made the decisions moved to Portugal and the land went back to the owner. It is still unused now. So much potential for the right team of people.
Thanks for sharing that! 👍 Yes, there's a tinge of jealousy in me for your experience there, but I also realize that you'd probably be envious of some of my life's chapters. If you happen to read this reply, can you please briefly describe what was the most useful thing that you've experienced/learned from your year-long bush living? Do you regret anything about your year there? Regardless, thank you for sharing your experience. Much Love & Respect from the rolling hills and fertile farmlands of Pennsylvania, USA!! :) Domari Nolo PA III
💯Bjorn, I saw this happening on the television decades ago. I was shocked that the programming was accepted and "successful'. I can't bear to turn on a television now.
I think the problem is, that most of us lost the connection to the nature. Not knowing names and benefits of trees and plants. Not knowing how to grow the simplest veggies. Not knowing how to use tools and how to fix simple things. I see how children nowadays grow up and I compare it with my childhood. We learned so much with being outside on our own, building tree houses and rafts. Making tours with bikes without being monitored through parents all the time. We have to take a few steps back as a society.
With the current state of society? The tree of liberty must first be watered with the blood of countless child predators before such a thing can happen again. It simply wouldn’t be safe without doing that first.
I started reading as a hobby again after many years not doing so and it opens your mind up so much. We should never think we know it all, there's always something to learn.
@@DoctorWonka all accumulated human knowledge EVER is contained on the internet, books dont come close, you associate "internet" with social media is why you think this way, look at bigger pictures.
Unfortunately, I find that with the health care system. Instead of getting to the root of problems it is becoming more or less “Take this pill and hope it works!”
It's exactly like that in Germany too. Because the system was "neoliberalized" years ago. Finding the root cause is expensive and after healing, the patient doesn't generate money anymore. You have to be your own layman doctor now, and use the professional doctors as a tool to get what you need.
@@allesdurchprobiert Yeah, well they want you healthy but not too healthy or else that means less money for them. I only go to the doctor’s as a last resort and unfortunately, with a current medical problem it is a last resort sadly. However, I have been taking more health and psychology courses the past few years and reading/ trying natural means. But in certain cases medication is a last option.
Hi Wolfgang! I love you your attitude. I am 76 years young too. I feel 49 years young. I bought a motorcycle with side car last year and love the freedom. I served in the military for many years and saw the worst of humanity. My sense of humor saved my sanity. There is so much beauty in this world if you only open your heart. My cats are inquisitive and have taught me how different the world looks like from 8 inches from the ground. If we are to ever grasp the meaning of our humanity, we have to see this world from the other person's perspective. Thank you Wolfgang, for shearing sharing your story.
Thank you for raising the topic. As a housewife,with the tvset in the kitchen,I slowly reduced my watching tv time to minimum. After the “special operations “, in parts of our only home,planet Earth, I don’t watch the news too. Human interaction is a luxury,that majority are missing, willfully or circumstantially. But listening to different analysts is on the rise. Who are these speakers,who talk words ,shape opinions, but is there truth in things they preach, it’s only their opinion people take for granted. Reading books became something archaic, the fast paced life does not allow more than few minutes concentration on anything, let alone reflecting on anything. I feel sad for the young people, as a lot are lost in the modern times of false pop idols, upside down politics and little family values world.
I Absolutely agree with you. I have always said that we are never too old to learn, Anything!!! I Love your videos. I'm almost 60yrs old and I Love to read books!Thank you so very much. 🙏💙💙💙🙏
Remaining a student, reading books, and science should always be questioned. Excellent advice. Have you considered reading a book about flat earth? You cannot have it both ways. Lies didn’t start with “modern science “. Question everything, read and then come to your own conclusions, but don’t rest your case on what you believe to be true. Because, when you get down to it, what we were taught becomes belief. Fear keeps most people from reading, because it challenges everything you were taught.
Had the same thoughts. I don’t believe in a flat earth, but I’d read about it if there’s someone creditable with strong evidence. Dismissing these people as stupid is what happened to us in the last 3 years. Yes. Goes both ways!
The fact is that the World is changing faster and faster. If we don't keep learning we'll be left behind. If we don't keep challenging ourselves there's only reality shows and poverty for us.
Hello Bjorn.I just found your channel last night and became a new subscriber. You speak the truth. I have observed the dummying down of society throughout my life. Sometimes it can be dangerous to disagree people who are ignorant. The jab leads to the slab. Others shun books but we're avid readers in my home. I'm grateful to connect with others who feel this way. Thank you for your important efforts.
I have had enough of stupid people ,as well. In one month I'm giving up my house and going to go off grid. I have already hidden supplies in the area where I am going . I'll probably pick up a dog on the way .😊
@@reesedaniel5835 if you don't want the end of cash then stop giving cashiers a 100 for a 5 dollar purchase, they do not have change for it, they are not a friggin bank
Thank you for sharing your love of nature, your calming insight, and for echoing the thoughts of many. I feel like you are the calm in my storm. I'm in the US, a beautiful country, also, but I feel like it's crumbling in front of my eyes. I'm 65, and I feel so helpless and scared for our children. You give me hope. Thank you...
Your thirst for knowledge should grow as you age. Question everything, do not trust anyone in a position of authority, they do not all have your best interest at heart.♥️
@@taskcasburn6086 as a person with a science degree, who worked in the science field for 27 years, i completely agree. Science is a tool to discover teh universe. If I say "that is what science TELLS us", it means that "anybody can go do the same experiment and get the same result; otherwise, find the flaw inthe method, run the experiment again and let's all look at the data" "settled science" is small, closed minded thinking.
Congratulations on 7 years! I've only recently found your channel and love listening to your philosophies. Learning new things is wonderful and vital for a healthy brain and yet our school system (UK) has gradually and deliberately taken away anything that teaches HOW to think and replaced it with WHAT to think. Stay curious
Thank you sir, for your thoughtful and insightful discussion. I am 78 years old and I am still learning every day. I am often surprised at what I learn, not only about the world around me but also about myself. I am a very different person now to the man I was thirty or fourty years ago. In today's world there is a lack of recognition of the ability and need for people to grow and develop as the years pass. Hopefully we become wiser and more tolerant as the brashness and know it all attitudes soften with time. We are and were, all capable of being stupid at some point in our lives. In the world today one stupid act as a young person will haunt you for the rest of your days and be used to define you and your character by those who disagree with you and who have little or no capacity for self reflection.
The deluded in their illusion , eyes wide shut , plugged in but nobody home , with some bizarre , almost fear , of education. Thoroughly enjoy your talks , thank you 👍🏻
I watched one video and subscribed immediately. This is so refreshing. It's childlike curiosity and it's a wonderful thing. I had and have A LOT of it. Got mocked and chastised all my life for it. Am now 60 and glad I never lost it. I use every opportunity to foster it in my grandchildren.
Thank you. Someone who has the same philosophies on intelligence as I do. Help eliminate stupidity…give a stranger a book…but not the Bible, Koran, or tora.
"When stupidity is considered patriotism; it is unsafe to be intelligent."
-Isaac Asimov
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I've never heard that before in Elementary School, and anything I didn't already know before by the Time Highschool Ended I will Immediately Reject and Get Belligerently Hostile! It Makes me Angry! So Angry You'll Learn to Not Learn Anything Knew as well, and Specially Damn Well Not Say It Loud! It's all just Leftist Hogwash, or a Rightwing Conspiracy to Me, everything I Don't Know Can be Drummed Up and Into it must be the Exact Opposite of my Politics! And Viciously Refuted!
What a genius! So true
He has not much room to call people stupid considering a lot he said .
@@SuperPatrick777 Examples, please
I’m a Canadian 🇨🇦 born in 1975, and during my life I’ve seen an almost unbelievable decline of general decency and morality in people. I try my hardest to be as polite, courteous and respectful to others as I can, even though a lot of people these days aren’t……
Geometry is very useful but all our measurements are false tho work for us.
Always been the same in bigger cities etc, no different
100% I’ve experienced similar in Australia since 1973. It baffles me how so many people seem to have seriously impaired empathy, extreme entitlement and no basic courtesy. It all seems to be tied to stupidity, cruelty and a brutish attitude to life and others. My childhood wasn’t like that at all. Blokes used to fix stuff properly on a handshake. Can’t even imagine that now.
Fellow Canadian and completely agree. It is most obvious on the roads.
@@cloudmountaindog8537 exactly mate, people have been enticed into so much narcissism and material things that the dumbing down of has made them feel like knowing what Kim Kardashian bought for herself on her last holiday or who picked the most teams in the footy tips is a great accomplishment, they'll sit and talk for hours about it and pat each other on the backs, and yet people I know have the cheek to say to me that I'm antisocial because I just want to go and get the things I need and get my ass home, and yet somehow it's my fault that I don't follow suit and sit with them
talking absolute rot for hours, and these are people that are in their 40's and 50's that think they're smarter than other people for picking more teams in the NRL that week, it's sad mate 👍
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Sounds like what would happen when leftism is allowed to run amok in society.
_Currently underway_
I have stories I can tell all day
exactly 💯💯
Nice quote, Dostoevsky never actually said it though
What’s his name the Canadian? I think Jordan Peterson. Canadian Medical board wants him not only to shut up but undergo reeducation. Open ended too. They are not clear what their goal is, length of time, or how they know that he’s “Healed”. The very insanity that want to decide, define, and punish “Hate Speech”. Who gives or receives that power. The resistance is growing to these tyrants but not fast enough
“When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. The pain is felt by others. The same thing happens when you are stupid.”
- Morgan Freeman
😂😅
I’ll take it with me to the grave😂
Hadn't heard that one... quote of the month 👏👏👏
Quote of the month 👏👏👏
How would he know?
When curiosity dies true learning stops, minds close and humility disappears.
don't wish upon it
Brilliant!
hearing the phrase "the Science is Settled" is maddening .... its the complete opposite of what science is .
one definition of science is "the Prosecution of Truth " , to pursue , and discover even against what is currently believed .
I mean ppl allready take google as gospel
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see."
~ Alexandra K. Trenfor
I had a teacher like that. And I'm grateful for him doing this. He told me last year after hearing my music " I have no more to teach you" thought I would *never* hear him say that to me. But he did.
That's well said ♡
lolol, is this how you learned math?
oh my gosh, and look at the thumbs up…lolollol,,,
@@ponderinglife5582 well, compared to "your thumbs up". since I studied engineering, I can assuredly exclaim that according to your metrics, I seem to have conquered you in short order, next troll plz
This reminds me of a quote:"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." -Charles Bukowski
He is paraphrasing Yeats.
@@fredmiddleton4814 No, he was saying his own conclusion, even if it was almost the same as conclusions of others.
@divinehatred6021
Indeed, many people can have the same idea simultaneously just as Isaac Newton and Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz both formulated calculus.
This is partly due to science being self-correcting with new information, and partly from geeks being bullied in schools.
@@Smedley1947And Descartes
I’m in my 60’s and still want to eat the world. Soooooo many things to know and learn. I’ve never been bored a day in my life and I never feel alone. Thank you so much for sharing these important insights. 😊
Me, too, and I just learned new ways to draw tonight!
Huh ive never heard of the term of " eating the world" to describe a thirst for knowledge but I like it quite a bit .
@@jasonjean5333 Please don't take it literally. Lol
63+ and I LEARN something NEW each and every day! Just like watching this video I am LEARNING!
I don't believe that you have "never been bored a day" in your life. What's wrong with occasional boredom? I think your memory is faulty.
I am a 77 year old student. I read 60-70 books a year. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
That doesn’t leave you with much that’s worth reading then.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
I say the same thing! But I refuse to Digress..
Damn, I wish I had the time to read as much as that
This is sooo truth!
It is called "dumbing down" the people. They don't want smart intelligent people who think for themselves, they want people to do what they say without question.
Exactly
That's why gov are shipping in poc from all over the world to Europe. To dumb it down.
That's what the marxists said
The intelligencia has to be killed off first, since it's the biggest danger to the new red elite under guise
It's working
Truth!
University professor here. Totally agree with your comments.
Never argue with a stupid person...or they will only drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience - Mark Twain
I wouldnt call it Experience, its just Their ways of seeing that tells us about their Lack of understanding...
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I like that quote. I also like his other one in the same vein: "Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get filthy, and the pig likes it." I have a feeling that Twain had a lot of experience talking with stupid people.
@@terjesvensen8393 It's a well honed skill they have. A defense mechanism for their fragile ego.
If it wasn't George Bernard Shaw? Mark Twain? Abraham Lincoln? Cyrus Stuart Ching? J. Frank Condon? Richard P. Calhoon? N. H. Eagle? Cale Yarborough? anonymous, or someone else
I'm 36 and in my peer group, I'm the only one who actually reads. No one that I know seems to have the patience to sit down, and learn anymore. I love learning, I grew up with dyslexia, and had a very hard time reading. Maybe I just appreciate it more than the next guy🤷 keep up the great videos👍 you rock man!
I'm from. A family of readers and proud to say my grandkids love books. I love your signature. I'm nown as Bear Dance in woods. Lol
You are rare in these times we need more free thinkers like you everyone is so programmed by the matrix. Watch the movie blade runner it’s basically the NWO playbook that and the UN agenda.
I love that name! It's encouraging to hear of kids with a love of books!
@@thor8580 thanks Thor I'll have to give it a watch. And thank you for the compliment of saying the world needs more people like me! I've never been told that before 😀
I am 75. I see Internet references that are in conflict with my eyeballs have seen.
I would trust bound paper books for reference before diving into the internet about many subjects. It would take a lot of effort to reproduce a bound copy of a book printed in 1953. Or any other year before the net was a public thing to view.
Oh yes I have heard of the Mandela effect. BUT I am talking about being there, in person. There are experts at slight of hand and slighting reality for their own purposes. They have been around for millennia.
It used to be that you find more than one source. Compare and deduce something approaching reality.
But when all sources are exactly the same. It generally indicates tampering.
I’ve been saying this for years! Especially these days… people commit crimes and then get praised and called brave by the media then end up getting brand deals and go around giving lectures! It’s ridiculous!
It's an intentional attack on our societies. Just research the people who push harmful social policies that reward bad behavior and ignorance and you'll see that I'm telling the truth. They WANT our Western countries to be filled with stupid, addicted and sick evil people for a reason.
The sociopathic all support each other. There are bottom feeders too.
Are you talking about Tony Blair?
“Catch me outside girl”
Has $20 million + now, attention pays.
Recently encountered someone, maybe classic narcissistic personality, who seems to want to be a “life coach”. Wonder how well that might succeed.
Carl Sagan called it the "celebration of ignorance."
Stupid people are often considered "cool" by others.
He warned of the rise of this kind of thing in his book "The Demon Haunted World". Excellent book with his wife, if you haven't read it.
I prefer Stephan Goodson's book on The History Of Central Banking.
@@Stormer-Europa Read both.
As Gandalf put it:
“I’m going to seek the company of the only one around here with any sense.”
“And who is that, Gandalf?”
“Myself, Mr. Baggins!”
At least you quoting Catholic literature
Thank you 🙏🏽
Gandalf the g.o.a.t.
@@SIR_HEDGE_KNIGHT He's not a goat.
@@blackrosedragon3948 it's an acronym, it means "Greatest of all time"
My father never finished high school, but he was one of the smartest people I have ever known. He did read a lot, and never lost his child-like curiosity about everything. When he got older, he’d see something on the news about some country he knew nothing about, pull out the second-hand atlas I gave him and he’d be able to tell you their main exports, whether it’s farms are able to feed their people etc. He was never boastful about knowing more than others, he just would do it for himself to understand the world we live in better. I think I learned more from him than I ever did from any of my teachers. He’s gone now, but I inherited his curiosity. It pains me to see people spouting off about things they know so little about, but don’t realize that they are rather ignorant about it. I used to correct people, but I gave up. You can debate an intelligent person who may have a different opinion, but to the illinformed and misinformed, all you get is noise, contradiction and denial. Now that I’m an old guy myself, I must say that every day I’m surrounded by more and more chronically stupid people.
My grandfather only went to grade 5 because of WW2 but he spent almost his whole life learning right up until the last 10 years when he got terminally ill.
"Anti-intellectualism: allows people to replace facts with beliefs." This is so on point I wrote it down in my journal. Agree with everything you said
Love this
Nailed it 👍👍👍
I agree with you completely. The rise of social media has dumb down society. A lot of people can not sit and read a book anymore. It's a shame really.
I totally agree! Ugh @ social media. I'm old enough (40-some) to know a glorious time prior to this hyper-connectivity, and internet. We did things. Outdoors! We grew up stronger physically, morally, and such were able to know how much better life can be w/o constant tethering to 'feeds', social media, & constant force-fed 'information' (aka, BS). I strongly encourage younger peeps to 'cut the cord'. A whole hidden world opens up - some of us call this thing, "living"..
this is a weaponized attack from billionaires to destroy a nation from within.
China bans our content , and pushes their Algorithim for more intellectualism content to thier people .
Really it's just exposing the natural tendencies of most people.
they got 10 sec Tiktok videos instead
Exactly this. Social Media has a lot to answer for. Too many people use it as an escape from reality. t's the latest fashionable drug that nobody's yet realised is doing so much harm to individuals and the wider society. The ability to think, debate, actual face to face conversation are in decline, civilisation as we know it is grinding to a halt. Reading, thinking, learning and creating are being obliterated by mindless scrolling :/ Oh heck, I'm actually a happy, optimistic person but you wouldn't know it from this reply lol
I dislike going out in public as the majority of people I have misfortune to meet are stupid. A total lack of even basic common sense. It's depressing.
Tell me about it. I just rode to the local grocery store with my hubby. He went in to get a few items while I waited in the truck and some little bimbo that works there and is always flirting with him literally chased him out to the truck with me sitting there. Then she had the nerve to look over at me after trying to get him to tell her his last name, and say "Hey there Sweetheart"....UGH. Absolutely shameless, dispicable behavoir.
Yeah. It's painful to listen to many of them, and feels impossible to even bother to attempt to reason.
@@reesedaniel5835 it's likely that she senses something about your husband that indicates he is interested, it's highly unlikely any woman would do what she did if the man seemed uninterested or at least neutral.
There's a big difference between trusting a mechanic or a surgeon and/or having respect for say the applied sciences next to the varying narratives we're fed by astrophysicists.
And so called professors. Ones that pretend they know everything. There's a few of them on RUclips.@@vthomas375
Unfortunately in America we have become a society of childish, adults that pretend to be grownups. You are so correct to we should keep our child like curiosity . While becoming adults. ❤️🙏❤️🙏
many europeans countries have the same fate
Yes, that is why I say we have a nanny gov. Because we act like children (maga) eight yr old. Everything is mine, mine, mine.
Most Americans have been made into pill heads. Ads, ads. ads, pills, pills, pills as advertised constantly over and over.
@@arghsonofcliff ??? Maga does not embrace a nanny government.
Democrat Party keeps that alive.
I'm Filipina and never knew anything about my country until I moved to Chile, and here I became completely enthralled with researching what Hispanic Filipinas was like. I've never stopped and after writing essays and studying 19th C. Spanish sources, now I am writing a fiction work. It fills my world in the most incredible way. Also I follow the invisible developments going on, if you know what I mean, that is fascinating as well, but it gets too heavy at times so I have the other thing. I also live in a cottage in the Andean foothills. Don't spend much time on sidewalks. You have to find your own thing. It's out there waiting for you to get it.
Could I ask you some questions about Chile?
“Replacing facts with beliefs”. Wow. Spot on. Yep that’s been going on too much. Especially in politics
This is a real problem in the US. We need a complete overhaul of the education system & real funding for the educators themselves. How can we expect them produce the future without giving them a living wage?
The new religion. 😧
Replacing facts with beliefs is the entire point of religion.
Totally agree
Hurt feelings, mood swings, emotional immature, impulse gratifying idiots.
Hello Bjorn I'm an ex city girl from Edinburgh Scotland I moved to the Netherlands in the countryside and its done me wonders physically and mentally but the rate idiocy is on the rise in th UK is truly terrifying especially Scotland 😢
Too true 👍
I agree with you 100%- although i'm English i did not know it was the same north of the border! People unable to think for themselves anymore.
Welcome to the Netherlands!
Our govrnment is insane too!
@@rinskedevries3272 right u get it!
@@rinskedevries3272 its the entire western world
Social media is killing real social interaction. By fault of our own we fell for the trap and now suffer stupidity.... It will get worse.
Agreed. Is that better?
don't wish for it
this is a weaponized attack from billionaires to destroy a nation from within......
i think in the next few years its going to turn around . parents are catching on to what the Federall Govt and unelected billionaire world leaders are pushing on thier kids
Not only that, but it's an echo chambers for like minded freaks who normally wouldn't in the real world find each other, but collaborate their idiocy once they can communicate in an online group.
But what kills me is a group of kids standing in a circle waiting for the bus, and they are all on their cellphones talking to anyone else but who they are with physically.
When I was at school, I used to wish that I was like some of the other kids who would absorb everything that they were told, without questioning. Fifty + years later and my view has changed, having seen what they, and their kind, became.
They become a product to the system Drilled like the foot soldiers ( Cannon fodder) for the elite, being told how to think and when to wipe your own arse is what education is, with out questioning.
I know what you mean, my school friends that went on to higher education also went onto become the most closed minded people I know, completely incapable of considering the contrary to anything the government media puts out, they believe it without question.
@@Rob.P974 Wauw, Thankyou for Sharing and Confirming that, Rob.
Mindless atomatoms lol
Me tooooo
And there was me thinking i was on my own with this subject. Hats off to you 👍🏻
Learn and question.
I am a detail Gardener, some people scauf at my humble claims of having a education in horticulture and that there even exists a gardener that does more than cutt grass. There are even those who think they have a inherit skilled hand in gardening because of some elder in thier family who was a great gardener, that may hold something, but years of hands on experience, and Lots of reading,.. you know ?
Great show today Wise Woodsman 🕊️🌲
There is NO substitute for practical experience imho.
You can bring horticulture but you can't make her think.
Yes, Wise Woodsman 👍🏽
Hmmm, you have so many spelling and grammatical errors.
There are many forms of intelligence, including horticulture
I've loved reading since childhood, I'm still reading, and learning, at 67, left school at 15 as I needed to work, didn't stop me continuing to learn, I've no idea how many books on multiple topics I've consumed over the years, but I've no intention of stopping anytime soon 😊
Same here.Dual lives.Keep reading.
Same as me! But let’s not forget, we are just reading someone else’s opinion on things
Yep same - keep learning!
This is so true so many people getting stupid right here in America.The schools are bad.The whole country has lost its civilization.
*Yes. Look who's in The White House.*
And the people lost it's identity. Men with beards claiming to be women using public women restrooms ECT. Lost there minds. If you call it out. Your looked upon as criminal. What.! Guess I'm a criminal I'm calling it out questioning idiots
And the fault for what you are talking about lies at the feet of the educated elites. There is no problem with your basic morons, they don't think they are smarter than everyone else. Now the educated idiots are a big problem due to them thinking that they know what is best for everyone else. When reality shows everything they touch turns to $h!+.
@@joeskeptical4762 did you see who he appointed to the chief executive position? A bug pharma con man, coof czar and overall criminogenic inclined person. The American Post went through his background. Oh yes he's also the man who said the unjabbed would have a dark winter of death. His Healthcare agencies he invested in were forced to settle medicare abd medicaid fraud lawsuits. Our white house is a den of thieves.
The educational curriculum has been taken over by leftist ideology for the past 20 years. The minds of the young generation are gone.
"An educated,healthy and confident nation is harder to govern." Tony Benn.
Is why authoritarians always cut funding of public education. Billionaires like Elon Musk censor political opposition and criticism.
I am a little old lady and spend of my time by myself except for my horses. I really enjoy reading. Any topic including the atlas. I had no trouble getting through covid times. I live in a rural wooded area and believe we learn until our end. Thank you for the videos.
I feel your strength. Give a kiss to your horses from me. And all the best.☘🍀🍀 (I spent covid times in the local field with single old ponny)
I also live in the woods by myself, and my "neighbors" are just like you. Honest and unbroken. I am in the right place. Cheers to our calm and peaceful lives. 😊
Love your videos. You’re sharing what we’re all thinking.
Exactly.
ABSOLUTLY !!! One important key; as Ellen G. White or Orwell warn to us: Get out the cities.
Because is in the cities where are plagues will be apply. CDBS, 15 min cities,... its only the beginning
Far from the cities there will be much less control because the lacks of police and rules, and you will have more freedom, more life healthy abd quality in the next SADLY years.
COMPLETELY AGREE. Some days I wonder if I’m the only one who sees these things. People have no shame these days. They will say or do anything stupid. And they are praised for it! What the hell?
Stupid people, aren't a threat.. it's intentional. Simple as that.
Vacuous cowardice > self-awarded certificate of participation....taught from kindergarten.
There is a growing narcissism. People behave like narcissists more as that is modelled for them. They are addicted to soaps and reality TV. I was into reality TV for a few years as it was a novelty back then and then got bored with it. They started recruiting obnoxious people deliberately and types of people they thought wouldn't get on together. That's when I stopped. I didn't watch soaps either apart from one. I was then out of sync with people who did.
I had a friend who was anti TV and wouldn't keep one at home. But she was fanatical about this. She said her cousins didn't have TV growing up, which is why they got talented at piano and ballet. I told getting rid of the TV wouldn't make a piano and piano teacher magically appear. So, I wrote a story based on her cycling around Wales on a mission to rid society of TV. I called it Judy on the Road.
@@timothyg3421 Disagree, misinformed emotionally unstable/irrational people, with fragile ego's in a pack can be violent and very dangerous.
I have been a physicist for over 50 years, and what you say is 100% true. The contempt for expertise in the US is real. One point I would make is that the study that make one an experts involves studying books, but much of it is like playing the piano; you have to actually do the work a long time with people who are really expert to develop the high level of skill required to be an expert. You can learn a lot by reading, but you also need years of real experience to be expert.
Have been teaching - mostly physics - since 1977. You are absolutely right about the piano. I wish more physicists knew this.
A real scientist would never say "100% true." You betray your subject and your career with your hyperbole. Another person making sweeping, rash, ill-considered anti-intellectual, reactionary comments. You are called out Sir.....(only a man would make such a comment).
the real experience is denied for far to many children and young people. . . life is supposed to be fun . . . serious about family and hard work so we can actually enjoy the air we breath. . . . the children are stuck at home with there parents stupidity and violence. . . . . parents who intentionaly train there kids for this. . . . they dont know what its like to actually live with the decisions they make. . . .and the kids are board and fed up with the BS that isn't there problem anyway. . . .they cant even vote but we expect the children to know about government and policies then we do. . . . and the lies. . . . . we never had a chance to know the truth without without being possessions and empty vessels for an old generation to put there crap.
Well, a glance over the shoulder and back 4-5 years, displays many legitimate reasons to take any expert with at least a grain of salt.
As the research of Mattias Desmet revealed, it is "experts" that is overrepresentated amongst those groups that is most prone to mass formation.
It’s not a rise in anti-intellectualism we’re experiencing, rather a rise in pseudo-intellectualism.
I believe it’s all by design from the 1%, demoralization.
Actually in America that were I live I.q. has drop alot
kinda
@@onithedemonslayer3142 By what measure are you judging this? Genuinely curious.
@@onithedemonslayer3142 Yep. Nice succinct use of satiric misspelling and satirical bad grammar (capitalization and tense) btw.
You should have millions of followers, I am 68 went to a village school but always read books and still do. I am horrified by the dumbing down we see today, in school I was taught to challenge every thing and learn about as much as possible so that I could converse with a wide variety of people.
Now 62, I was the same. Must be an 'age' thing! Farmer's daughter, church on Sunday, small village school education and just a regular pupil but one who always asked 'WHY' ! My mother took all her 7 children into the city every Thursday after school. We spent at least an hour there choosing our books. We all loved Thursday's. Raised my six children much the same way. All sons and all doing very well for themselves/families owning their own businesses. (An aside- not one of us took them poison shot. )
I understand your praise for him but it is better he remains more small
I go to the car dealer and they have a tv for the adults and a tv room for kids. I could not stand the "news" so I went in the kids room...no one was in there and the tv was off. An employee came in and turned it on. I was appalled...it was mind numbing so I left.
You are perfectly correct, sir
The reason is, of course,that idiots match easier to control. 👍
@@chelamcguire I agree wholeheartedly.
I'm Grammar school educated,and the two senior English teachers always encouraged me to ask questions (for whiich I have laws been grateful).
And I have always held that the most important question is WHY?
The "I'm usually all alone, there are no idiots here" statement was gold.
^ 100%
true, those lines made me laugh haha I’d better be alone
I arranged my life a lot like his, for the same reason. No distractions
"We spend our lives learning; if you like learning, life is large" - Nick Hexum
All I can say is you sir is that you are 100 percent right. The celebration of the bizarre and stupid is becoming an epidemic.
It just shows how the materialistic nonsense for the celebration of narcissism has taken over....
I had a government employee once say to me, "I don't know what you are doing but you have to stop it." Yes stupid people are everywhere.
I had a parking enforcement officer start to write me a ticket as soon as I parked my car and got out to pay. He was standing right there, he saw me. When I tried to explain this to him he said “I am not payed to think about these things and proceed to get very angry. He was a very large man so I said in a very loud voice “are you preparing to assault me?” A number of bystanders began to stare at him so he closed up his little book and walked away
@@yyz4761 doesn't sound like he was being stupid. but more likely pushing to fill out his quoter of the day, and you seemed like a target that wouldn't fight back because of his size.
Sums up the gov't attitude doesn't it?
@@deadreckoning6288 Yes. The government operates on the principle of the meaning of the word "kafkaesque"....Kafkaesque is used to describe situations that are disorientingly and illogically complex and or tedious in an unneccesarily surreal or nightmarish way. If you said your long, frustrating, and bizarre experience at the Department of Motor Vehicles was kafkaesque, you wouldn't be the first person to describe it that way.
I developed these rules for myself a fair few years before the pandemic showed up, but they've been serving me well so far:
1. Listen to everybody (no matter who they are)
2. Believe nobody (no matter who they are)
3. Locate as much original source data as possible
4. Make up your own mind from all of the above.
Believe nothing.
Dis believe nothing.
Verify everything.
#5 Have the right to call out stupid idiotic behavior
@@brianjacobsen8878 No arguments from me. :)
And why don't you idiots apply it?
Well your here so working great for you so far
Intellect doesn't equal wisdom. That is often a bitter pill to swallow.
No, but wisdom is such a vague term. You don't employ someone because they're wise, but maybe because they're educated
Define your terms. oh wise One.
No, but intellect is a favorite tool of wise people.
Me and my fiance literally don't like going out anymore at all because we have literally watched the decline in society and it is scary to know that here soon society will be so dumbed down that people will believe 2+2=pineapple just so they won't be confronted by these people that are steadily destroying everything
We ride horses a lot and one of the things we learn is to ride our own ride ! We can see and feel what's going on around us but we are just passing threw riding our own ride .
It’s nice to hear someone say fiancé, instead of “partner”.
All planned over decades and now playing out before our Eyes, the globalists cabal have infiltrated and compromised the western world with media, education etc resistance 👍😊😉
revelation 21:3 and 4
Great to hear you have each other. I'm in your identicle situation but no fiancέ... my german shepherd and I are always together
I don't even like leaving the house any more because of the anti-intellectualism every time I go out. It put's me in a mood.
Me too. I can't stand leaving my house anymore. Humanity has run its course.
@@evolveyourself9518 I believe over the next few years the western world is going to get a reality check that will either wake society up or destroy them. The plandemic did open up quite a few eyes to how things are in their world but there are still far too many that choose to be ignorant.
Keep up your morale dont be angry, i know what your saying but then their design is winning this is how they want you to feel
Get in nature learn so much . Inside you’re in box
@@matto4602 The box is just a state of mind.
It is easy to fool someone, it is very difficult to convince someone that they have been fooled. Mark Twain..
"ignorance, the root and stem of all evil"-plato
I'd take it one further and saying Arrogance.
Arrogance is the combination of both ignorance and ego.
But Plato was definitely onto something
Im a 90's kid and I remember when I was around 12 my father took me to a shoe store and at the checkout the ladies says, "can i have your phone number for our system?". The offended look on my fathers face said it all.
We have badly fallen as a society to have given our privacy and freedom so cheaply while half asleep. If calamity doesnt kill you stupidity surely will.
i do all my shopping online, no way to do it without giving away personal info but to me it's still much more private than going into a store and being in public around total strangers who could actually physically touch me if they chose.
Granpere may have been seen as a craftsman-lumberjack but he traveled with a steamer trunk full of books. And we went to public libraries weekly.
I've, seen and endured enough calamity that i cannot afford stupidity on my budget, except on truly special occasions. 😁
Not all privacy violations are created equal. The bigger risk these days are data leak hacks on large companies.
I trust a vendor to treat my info decently (usually you can tell them not to spam you with ads and they listen), but accumulating lots for it to be leaked and distributed into the scam-sphere is where the real pain is. We live in the golden age of scams, after all!!!
Also biometrics - that's a no-go for me most of the time.
Well you can only really comment on the culture/society in which you live.
"Don't let your education get in the way of your learn'in."-Mark Twain
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them.” - Thomas Sowell
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
@@reesedaniel5835 that's a Savage quote. I love it lol
@@DeflatingAtheismDo you have some examples?
@@DeflatingAtheism Thomas Sowell is an intellectual working for an ideological think tank. Think about the irony of that. My eyes were opened to how ignorant he really is when I read his critique of climate science. It was just a rehash of easily countered tropes.
Finally!! Someone saying this out loud! I am constantly telling people that I will not take nonsense and make it a conversation. I have to add that we are now learning much about nutrition that has been hidden from us. We have been deceived there as well. It isn’t a wonder people are distrustful. We have been lied to in every aspect of our lives and now it is up to us to find the truths.
The example of Flat Earth is a bad one though. The spinning water ball rocketing through space at 66,600 mph IS the lie
@@ironmanrob66 yes sir. Flat and stationary
@@ironmanrob66 We don't notice the speed, because Earth is so big and gravity holds everything down. The Earth's roundness was proven by Bronze Age Greek philosophers, by its round shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. The Flat Earth theory is biblical, based on ancient Babylonian myths, because the ancient Hebrews are descended from the Babylonians. It is currently a conspiracy theory.
You’re my favorite Woodsmen. I work 10-12 hours a day indoors in the city surrounded by narcissistic people. I love when you’re outdoors, it’s beautiful and I envy for being out in nature so much. You’re so blessed to be able to do so.
I agree we should continually educate ourselves. At the same time we should always find a balance between “trusting the experts” and trusting our experiences. I believe this was once referred to as critical thinking and was summarized in “question everything you hear and know.”
Yeah I agree. Trust but verify. Asking questions, even of experts, is not attacking intellectualism because everyone can have facts at least shaded by personal prejudice.
It is truly sad that ignorance is being celebrated as widely as it is. We are regressing as a society. Keep doing what you do Bjorn.
I'm SO GLAD you made this video!! I've been in the service industry for years and I see stupidity every day. It's gotten worse over the past several years and it's getting worse.
We've been downgraded to a lower level thru manipulation, food additives, GMO's, media, medicines and the educational system etc... I learned at an early age to think for myself and to solve problems, tasks and curiosity of how things work. Always trying to think outside the box! I've never believed in what was being told or to follow the crowd to the "rabbit hole." We've lost our will as "free thinkers" to some extent! I might not be the "brightest Apple in the barrel," but I can still be a free thinker.... Thank you Bjorn for your free thinking knowledge!
next stop: Eric Dubay
And let’s not forgot the estrogen and sodium fluoride found in our water
@@Valhalla_Heathen You are so right! The list is long...the causes are many...
Curiosity and a love of learning has kept me young. Got my first college degree when I was in my 40's and my Master's degree at 60. Constantly digging into old history books! It's fun! That and a healthy dose of laughter keep me thirsty for more! Nice video!
Dear Bjorn I appreciate your relaxed enthusiasm to explain to people what it all really is about - curiosity for truth - thank you!
In the very middle of your video you highlighted the most important thing in my opinion: intelectialism in not an certain education level - it's an attitude. It's an attitude of staying curious, open-minded, ready to change your opinions and point of view when confronted with facts, which BTW you are able to sort out from the noise and nonsense.
I think that being isolated from the ratrace is a plus for clear thinking and debating. I love listening to your theories.
I love to read all the comments under your videos! Like minded, beautiful people- each and everyone of them! You all are solid gold!
I've just realised, reading your comment, that there are no trolls and nastiness here. How wonderful
It’s a happy safe place. I like it here too.
That is so true. I wish we could all live together in our own country.
Thank you, I was thinking the same thing. I raise my glass to you and us 😊
@@MarkTurner-vs7uc that would really be a wonderful place to live in!
Great point! Charles Darwin once said, ‘if someone proved all of my life’s work wrong, I would embrace them’. Constant questioning and falsification is the bedrock of scientific philosophy.
I remember anti intellectualism in the 80's, where being bored, reactive, and not being curious about anything was the peak of cool. Being a 'nerd' was social suicide. I knew kids who purposely got bad grades in school so that popular (failing) kids would be nicer to them. Carl Sagan talked about this in the 70's. It's not a new concept at all. I guess people are talking about it today because it's much harder to ignore.
I am learning more now than when I was in school.
Thank you for this. I used to read Asimov’s non fiction when I was young and related to his words. Another thing, I visited a big older ranch in Montana where none of the family went to University. The grandpa invited me to one of their rooms…it was a library with all walls filled with books on shelves, and a big rocking chair
And I guarantee you Grandpa was FAR more intelligent than anything coming out of the universities nowadays....
Asimov's non-fiction is better than his fiction. Same applies to Dickens.
@reesedaniel5835 you kinda need to go to university if you want to be an open heart surgeon or a physicist though
"The thing about Smart People is sometimes they seem like Crazy People to Stupid People" -Stephen Hawking
I know an insanely brilliant woman whose thoughts and insight blows my mind, others think she is crazy, but they just cannot see it. -MichiganMatt
Ah yes! Stephen Hawking😂 the guy who was on Epstein island
@@JaheimPalmer- I never said I was a fan, in fact I have long thought of him as an actor used to manipulate sheep. Since normies like/respect him I drop that quote in their laps. I often drop quotes from people I do not care for, from Einstein, Barack Husain Obama, Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton, ect
@@WisconsinEric Oh....you're one of the anti-intellectuals.
@@michaels7159 I am the kid that the school had the threaten with detention if I did not join their math team. Math coach warned me before the competition that the other teams were going to accuse me of cheating. You mad?
In my philosophy, there is a difference between intellect and intelligence. Intelligence is like the magnificent, subtle and little-understood workings of your body, that quietly and exquisitely gets on with it. Intellect for me is a smallish subset of this intelligence and it has its place - even though it frequently bigs itself up yet gets it wrong! I try to cultivate my instinctual intelligence, which is like a still small voice, that cuts through to aspects that intellect cannot even imagine. I think we all have access to this instinctual intelligence but it is easily overlooked.
Bjorn, I absolutely love that you do not mince your words and you tell people exactly how it is!! This is the most refreshing page on the internet.
Great presentation, I tell folks all the TIME, "I am ignorant, but I work daily to overcome this
flaw," ( Peace
I would like it known that even though sometimes people do disagree,, I have always held Bjorn in high regard for what he does and continues to do for Others!!! Our world would be a lot better place if there were many more like him!
100% agree with you, stupidity and shallowness are now celebrated qualities in the main stream media
This Carl Sagan quote is on my mind a lot lately...
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
OCcums Razor by lord oCum of razor
Love this!
I have often seen this sentiment, in the form of this quote: "it is easier to fool a man, than to convince him he has been fooled." It is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but there seems to be no evidence of the actual author. Regardless, it seems an accurate observation.
It’s hard to free fools from the chains they revere. ~Voltaire
I lived with hippies up a mountain in the Canaries for 1 year. Living in nature and growing our own food/medicine. 💚 I learnt more in 1 year than the previous 20.
Where can I find them?sounds great
@@barniball this was in Tenerife high up past a place called Arafo. There are numerous places just in Tenerife. We stayed at an old tobacco farm/finca. The land was huge and covered many terraces in wooded areas where people built amazing recycled houses from old pallets/ salvaged wood. We had solar electric, also fresh water source from the mountain. It really was heaven.
Unfortunately the guy who made the decisions moved to Portugal and the land went back to the owner. It is still unused now. So much potential for the right team of people.
Thanks for sharing that! 👍
Yes, there's a tinge of jealousy in me for your experience there, but I also realize that you'd probably be envious of some of my life's chapters.
If you happen to read this reply, can you please briefly describe what was the most useful thing that you've experienced/learned from your year-long bush living?
Do you regret anything about your year there?
Regardless, thank you for sharing your experience.
Much Love & Respect from the rolling hills and fertile farmlands of Pennsylvania, USA!! :)
Domari Nolo
PA III
Wow can i join you 😅
@@bigsi4157 Thanks for the answer!
💯Bjorn, I saw this happening on the television decades ago. I was shocked that the programming was accepted and "successful'. I can't bear to turn on a television now.
We no longer have a TV for these very reasons x
“The willingness to learn, it’s an attitude. It’s actually keeping child in us alive.”
Absolutely true. Never thought of it like that.
I think the problem is, that most of us lost the connection to the nature. Not knowing names and benefits of trees and plants. Not knowing how to grow the simplest veggies. Not knowing how to use tools and how to fix simple things. I see how children nowadays grow up and I compare it with my childhood. We learned so much with being outside on our own, building tree houses and rafts. Making tours with bikes without being monitored through parents all the time. We have to take a few steps back as a society.
By the by, can you see my replies?
With the current state of society?
The tree of liberty must first be watered with the blood of countless child predators before such a thing can happen again. It simply wouldn’t be safe without doing that first.
@Martina J. You may get your wish soon.
Times change. You do realise this?
I started reading as a hobby again after many years not doing so and it opens your mind up so much. We should never think we know it all, there's always something to learn.
Me too. 😊. The internet and “smart”phones were sucking my attention away from actual learning
@@DoctorWonka all accumulated human knowledge EVER is contained on the internet, books dont come close, you associate "internet" with social media is why you think this way, look at bigger pictures.
@@joejones9520 I didn’t say that knowledge was not within the internet. It is! But it is getting more and more difficult to find it. 🔬🔍🔍…
Unfortunately, I find that with the health care system. Instead of getting to the root of problems it is becoming more or less “Take this pill and hope it works!”
It's exactly like that in Germany too. Because the system was "neoliberalized" years ago. Finding the root cause is expensive and after healing, the patient doesn't generate money anymore. You have to be your own layman doctor now, and use the professional doctors as a tool to get what you need.
@@allesdurchprobiert Yeah, well they want you healthy but not too healthy or else that means less money for them. I only go to the doctor’s as a last resort and unfortunately, with a current medical problem it is a last resort sadly. However, I have been taking more health and psychology courses the past few years and reading/ trying natural means. But in certain cases medication is a last option.
Thank you so much for this. It is so important.
Water is always level it doesn't curve! Can you feel the spinning of 1600 km hour. Ships don't disappear over the horizon.
Hi Wolfgang! I love you your attitude. I am 76 years young too. I feel 49 years young. I bought a motorcycle with side car last year and love the freedom. I served in the military for many years and saw the worst of humanity. My sense of humor saved my sanity. There is so much beauty in this world if you only open your heart. My cats are inquisitive and have taught me how different the world looks like from 8 inches from the ground. If we are to ever grasp the meaning of our humanity, we have to see this world from the other person's perspective.
Thank you Wolfgang, for shearing sharing your story.
Your so right! Never stop learning and be a critical thinker!
Thank you for raising the topic. As a housewife,with the tvset in the kitchen,I slowly reduced my watching tv time to minimum. After the “special operations “, in parts of our only home,planet Earth, I don’t watch the news too. Human interaction is a luxury,that majority are missing, willfully or circumstantially. But listening to different analysts is on the rise. Who are these speakers,who talk words ,shape opinions, but is there truth in things they preach, it’s only their opinion people take for granted. Reading books became something archaic, the fast paced life does not allow more than few minutes concentration on anything, let alone reflecting on anything. I feel sad for the young people, as a lot are lost in the modern times of false pop idols, upside down politics and little family values world.
It is hard to soar with the eagles when you are surrounded by turkeys.
Love the analogy but it's really more like being trapped in a bucket of crabs....
Why did this remind me of the WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving episode?
Puke!
Actually, turkeys are some of the most vicious of all birds.
I Absolutely agree with you. I have always said that we are never too old to learn, Anything!!! I Love your videos. I'm almost 60yrs old and I Love to read books!Thank you so very much. 🙏💙💙💙🙏
Remaining a student, reading books, and science should always be questioned. Excellent advice. Have you considered reading a book about flat earth? You cannot have it both ways. Lies didn’t start with “modern science “. Question everything, read and then come to your own conclusions, but don’t rest your case on what you believe to be true. Because, when you get down to it, what we were taught becomes belief. Fear keeps most people from reading, because it challenges everything you were taught.
Had the same thoughts. I don’t believe in a flat earth, but I’d read about it if there’s someone creditable with strong evidence. Dismissing these people as stupid is what happened to us in the last 3 years. Yes. Goes both ways!
@@krisjustin3884 there's nothing enlightened about denying reality.
@@krisjustin3884 There is no evidence for flat earth that cannot be simply debunked.
The fact is that the World is changing faster and faster.
If we don't keep learning we'll be left behind.
If we don't keep challenging ourselves
there's only reality shows and poverty for us.
Hello Bjorn.I just found your channel last night and became a new subscriber. You speak the truth. I have observed the dummying down of society throughout my life. Sometimes it can be dangerous to disagree people who are ignorant. The jab leads to the slab. Others shun books but we're avid readers in my home. I'm grateful to connect with others who feel this way. Thank you for your important efforts.
I have had enough of stupid people ,as well. In one month I'm giving up my house and going to go off grid. I have already hidden supplies in the area where I am going . I'll probably pick up a dog on the way .😊
Buy all your supplies quickly before these bastards take away cash and make it all digital....(this is one way they are eliminating off gridders).
@@reesedaniel5835 if you don't want the end of cash then stop giving cashiers a 100 for a 5 dollar purchase, they do not have change for it, they are not a friggin bank
Thank you for sharing your love of nature, your calming insight, and for echoing the thoughts of many. I feel like you are the calm in my storm.
I'm in the US, a beautiful country, also, but I feel like it's crumbling in front of my eyes. I'm 65, and I feel so helpless and scared for our children.
You give me hope. Thank you...
Your thirst for knowledge should grow as you age. Question everything, do not trust anyone in a position of authority, they do not all have your best interest at heart.♥️
You know when to push back? When they tell you that the “science is settled “.
LOL yes, science is never settled, it isn't even settled on gravity.
At that point, science becomes religion.
And my response to that is, "It might be in YOUR mind." And then not spend too much time in that person's company.
@@wyzolma99 Perfect!
@@taskcasburn6086 as a person with a science degree, who worked in the science field for 27 years, i completely agree. Science is a tool to discover teh universe. If I say "that is what science TELLS us", it means that "anybody can go do the same experiment and get the same result; otherwise, find the flaw inthe method, run the experiment again and let's all look at the data"
"settled science" is small, closed minded thinking.
Congratulations on 7 years! I've only recently found your channel and love listening to your philosophies. Learning new things is wonderful and vital for a healthy brain and yet our school system (UK) has gradually and deliberately taken away anything that teaches HOW to think and replaced it with WHAT to think. Stay curious
Thank you, Karen!
Thank you sir, for your thoughtful and insightful discussion. I am 78 years old and I am still learning every day. I am often surprised at what I learn, not only about the world around me but also about myself. I am a very different person now to the man I was thirty or fourty years ago. In today's world there is a lack of recognition of the ability and need for people to grow and develop as the years pass. Hopefully we become wiser and more tolerant as the brashness and know it all attitudes soften with time. We are and were, all capable of being stupid at some point in our lives. In the world today one stupid act as a young person will haunt you for the rest of your days and be used to define you and your character by those who disagree with you and who have little or no capacity for self reflection.
Well said. Also born in 1944. They threw away the mold!
Stupidity we are born with, ignorance is learned.
Big fan of these videos mate, they're the cleanest, best pleasure
Socrates was the wisest man in Athens because he alone was prepared to admit his own ignorance rather than pretend to know something he did not.”
The deluded in their illusion , eyes wide shut , plugged in but nobody home , with some bizarre , almost fear , of education. Thoroughly enjoy your talks , thank you 👍🏻
I watched one video and subscribed immediately. This is so refreshing.
It's childlike curiosity and it's a wonderful thing. I had and have A LOT of it. Got mocked and chastised all my life for it. Am now 60 and glad I never lost it. I use every opportunity to foster it in my grandchildren.
Thank you. Someone who has the same philosophies on intelligence as I do. Help eliminate stupidity…give a stranger a book…but not the Bible, Koran, or tora.
Not just "favorite hairy woodsman," but favorite living Norwegian philosopher!