I tend to agree with you,, now if I were to guess agriculture would have been somewhere between 10 - 14 % when I looked it up I got 6% GDP what I can not find is the percentage of people involved in agriculture..there is no such thing as equality.
Yes people tend to want to be lead around by the nose.. sad but true.. that is why they buy into the spin doctors.. what was it Hitler used to say,,"If you are going to tel people a lie, tell them a big one they will believe it. The people that signed the american declaration of independence were not the cream of society but just the opposite. If I do not make sense or bad spelling,, or other grammars problems part of it is due to the medication I am on,, please try and fill in the blanks.. Thank you for putting up with me Allan On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:01 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to treat all humankind accepting peace and non-violence > equally. One quickly realises this can't work in full. I'm not > giving maths lessons to all the kids round here who need them but am > teaching my grandson. Most people can't even be trusted to find out > simple and easily available facts in making decisions or coming to > argument. There's an interesting example at - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ariely > - which shows most in the US think things are more equal than they are > and actually want them more equal than they think (already a massive > fictional improvement on reality). I don't treat all women as equally > as my partner. > > This doesn't lead me to dispatch equality as a concept - just > recognise it's an ideal with complexity. > > Teaching has led me to the view that most people don't want to learn > much. I suspect schooling inculcates this in most. I've had a glut > of the stuff and can feel the bildung was for nothing in the freezing > moral climate of banksterism, selfish, plastic society and the eye for > the main chance. One teaches people who have to make their way in > this world but we seem to teach them very little about it. > > If I ask students how much agriculture contributes to world GDP, most > of the answers are between 30 - 60%. It's 4%. How did they get so > dumb? > If I show students where to find the information they can get the > right answer. Sooner or later as a lecturer you discover students > have to be led by the nose - only a few are really interested in > thinking for themselves and becoming independent thinkers. > > If the above is the case in universities, what hope is there for an > educated populace capable in democracy? Our politicians have long > given up on this as the case and are now vying for votes in emotional > ignorance and the fantasy worlds generated by alienation from facts - > even antipathy towards them. > > Over here in the Banana Republic of the Sceptred Isle our PM Herr > Cameroon has noticed hardly any kids get adopted any more and it takes > over two years on average. This is dire evidence of jobsworth > bureaucracy. I'm sure it is. > I have noticed that "economics" pours nearly all available a monetary > value can be put on into the hands of a few rich. This is evidence the > economic system doesn't work. If he rings me up, I'll fix the > adoption system - as long as he does his job on what I've noticed. > Both these facts are true and admitting they are is important - but > facts are not all there is to argument. > > And argument is the blight of democracy - it isn't about investigation > and enquiry. It's about persuasion of the populace - a populace to > lazy to do its own work on the facts, tired of its failure in an > education system that ensures there is no benefit in finding out for > yourself. -- ( ) |_D Allan Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
