{"id":31817,"date":"2020-05-04T00:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31817"},"modified":"2020-05-04T00:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T05:11:36","slug":"audio-without-mastering-ideas-were-all-blind-leading-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31817","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Without mastering ideas, we\u2019re all blind leading the blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-Leading-the-Blind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31818\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-Leading-the-Blind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-Leading-the-Blind.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-Leading-the-Blind-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve become increasingly frustrated lately that there\u2019s no easy way to explain what I need to talk about these days.<\/p>\n<p>There is something badly wrong with our dysfunctional modern culture. We have become like blind men following other blind men \u2014 and that path leads to us all ending up in a ditch and wondering what happened.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized that I can\u2019t keep \u201cdumbing down\u201d some things. There are some ideas that you simply have to learn if you want to have this conversation and if you want to help correct what\u2019s wrong with the culture. And that means we have to confront the fact that our education and our cultural experience has dumbed down much of what we need to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to try to explain history or philosophy or anything else complex in this presentation, but I\u2019d like to start making the case for why most of our culture \u2014 probably including you \u2014 have to give up the shallowness we\u2019ve been taught.\u00a0And if this isn\u2019t what you want, it\u2019s probably also true that nothing else I\u2019ve said for many months will make a bit of sense to you, either.<\/p>\n<p>The audio embedded below is about 21 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Click or tap the \u201cplay\u201d button to listen.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-31817-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-leading-the-blind.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-leading-the-blind.m4a\">https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blind-leading-the-blind.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve become increasingly frustrated lately that there\u2019s no easy way to explain what I need to talk about these days. There is something badly wrong with our dysfunctional modern culture. 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