I think that the only way we can affect the things that happen as m18 speaks of is to become self-actualizing self-learners. If enough people become self-actualizing self-learners we can, as a group, begin to have an effect on what is going on in the world.
I am a retired engineer with 25 years of what I call self-actualizing self-learning. All of this leads me to conclude that if the citizens of democracies do not become significantly more intellectually sophisticated quickly our civilization is unlikely to survive the next 200 years.
Our educational institutions are controlled by those who do not find it to be in their interest to have intellectually sophisticated citizens and thus we cannot depend upon our educational institutions for a solution to our problem.
The solution can happen only when a significant percentage of our citizens become self-actualizing self-learners. I post in an effort to further that possibility by introducing new ideas to our citizens. I hope to arouse the critical capacity of our citizens to the point that they turn to the books and become self-actualizing self-learners too.
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